The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-16
BRIDGEPORT MARKET
 REPORT
Bridgeport, Conn.,, Oct. 16, 1918, SS6 Main Street. Tel. Noble z5V.
 Market Guide for Bridgeport
Consumers

Market Guide for Bridgeport
 Consumers Prepared by the Local City Mar keting Agent of the Bureau of Mar | kets, U. S. Department of Agriculture, | Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce and Bridgeport Fruit and Vegetables Growers Association, Cooperating. ABUNDANT - Grapes, Peppers, Sweet Corn, Apples, Onions, Sweet Potatoes, Green Tomatoes. NORMAL-Pears, Cabbage, Beets, Carrots, Parsnips, Quinces. SCARCE-Lima Beans, String Beans, Squash, Tomatoes. Summer Vegetables @ Thing of the Past. Several of the most popular sum- mer and early fall vegetables have all most entirely disappeared from the Farmers Market, 1t now being almost impossible to secure sweet corn or ripe tomatoes. A few commission houses are receiving small shipments of corn and ripe tomatoes from New York, the prevailing prices being s1 to SIPS per basket GA quarts) for the tomatoes and $2.00 to $2.50 per hun dred ears of corn. These vegetables have been replaced with root crops, there being an abundant supply of cut beets, carrots, parsnips, turnips, potatoes and onions.
 Potatoes and Onions Abundant Maine potatoes are costing retailers from s3.3O to $3.6O for a two bushel sack which Is equivalent to $1.65 to $1.S0 per bushel or $2.75 to $500 per cwt. Conn. Valley onions are also cheap, selling at $2.OO to $2.25 per cwt as the wholesale price. Sweet potatoes are another bargain, retail CTS paying only s425-s5.OO for 150 pounds q barreD. Which is equiva- lent to 2 3-4 to 1-3c a pound.
 Apples-good, 5Oc-$1.5O basket, f. 1Oc quart; $4.5O-$6 barrel, 5-7c at; local, $1-$2.25 basket, 7-8c quart.
 Bananas-South America, $3.OO- $350 (nine hands) 25-30c dozen.
 Beans-green, $1.75-$2.00 bushel, 5-6 1-4c quart; wax, $1.75-$2.OO bshl 1-4-6 1-4c quart; lima, $2.5O-$3.O0 bushel, 7-9c quart.
 Beets-bunch, 2O-24 punches for $1, 5c bunch.
 Cabbage, $1.5o-$2 bushel, 1-2c-2c pound.
 Cantaloupes-Honey Dew, $2.25- S2.75 crate. 4O-45c each.
 Carrots-bunch, 30-50c bunch, ? 1-2-4c bunch.
 Corn-local, $1.5O-$2 busheI, 12-24c dozen; No. 2, $1.OO-$1.25 bushel, 12- 18c dozen.
 Cucumbers-York State, $190-s2.00 bushel, 1 1-2-2c each; pickling, $1.OO hundred, 1c each.
 Grapes Malaga, $2.5O-$2.75 flat, 12-13c pound; local, s1.5O-$1.75 fiat, 7-Sc pound.
 Lettuce-head, $125 crate, sc head. Onions-Conn. Valley, s2.O0-s3OO sack, 2-3c pound; local, $1.5O-$1.75 bushel, 313 1-4c pound.
 Pears-D'Anjou, S4.25-$5.o0 box 1-4-Sc pound.
 Oranges-CaL Valley, s125O box 60-90c dozen.
 Lemons-Cal, $6.5O-$7.5O box 2-2 1-2c each.
 Parsley-local, 3O-4Oc, 2 1-2-3 1-S, bunch.
 Peaches-Elbertas, $2.0O basket 14c quart; $4.00-$4.25 bushe1, 12 1-2C quart to 13 1-4c.
 Peppers-local, $1.OO-$1.25 bushel 12 1-2c quart to 13 1-4c
 Peppers-loca1, $1.OO-S1.25 busheI 3-4c quart
 Potatoes-local, '$2.O0 bushel, 50, peck; Maine. $1.75- $2.00 bushel, A 4Sc peck; sweet, $4.25-$5.50 barrel 1-4-Sc pound.
 Quinces, s1.25-s1.65,, basket, 70 COG peck.
 Endive-local, $1.0o barrel, 10, peck.
 Squash, 3o-35c dozen, 1-2-3c ech
 Tomatoes-ripe, 75-90c crate, 4 3-4c quart; green, 40-5Oc basket 8 1-2-4c quart.
 These prices represent the approxi mate cost to the retailer when buyint in unbroken packages. Consumer should expect to pay, on the average an advance over these prices of iron 20 to 40 per cent. to cover the retail CTS costs of doing business and hi legitimate profit.
 United States Department of
 Agriculture,
 H. s. SCHWENK,