The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-14
MARKET
 REPORT
Bridgeport, Nov. 14, 1918, S6S Main Street. Tel. Noble 250. Market Guide for Bridgeport
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Main Street. Tel. Noble 250. |
 Market Guide for Bridgeport
 Consumers. Prepared by the local City Market ing Agent of the Bureau of Markets, | U. s. Department of Agriculture, Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce | and Bridgeport Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association, Cooperating. ABUNDANT-Apples, cabbage, on- ions, Cal. grapes, potatoes, turnips. NORMAL-Beets, bananas, carrots, spinach, squash, sweet potatoes, let tuce, cauliflower, grapefruit.
 SCARCE-Beans, cranberries, lem ons, oranges, peppers, pears.
 Enttcing Salads for Fall Days
 Tart and juicy apples, grapes from California, sweet russet oranges from Florida and plenty of celery crisp and nutty are available as the | seasonal salad constituents for the | housewife at the present time. Any number of variations in fruit salads can be made by using nuts, raisins, | bananas and canned fruits but the apple and California grapes are so 1 plentiful at the present time that they should form the bulk of the salad. Nuts are higher this season and many | of the choice varieties are not avail l able in abundance on the market but | local wholesalers expect shipments in l the near future of almonds and Cali fornia walnuts. Peanuts and cocoa l nuts are on hand and might offer a suggestion to very the ordinary fruit salad. Lettuce and celery the ever | essential vegetables for salads are 1 plentiful, the home grown produc- tions are in the market and the ship ped in Big Boston head lettuce is be- ginning to show up prominently, the heads are hard as cabbage and the in ner portions crisp and tender. In passing on fruit salads the suggestion | that dried fruits be utilized to reduce the sugar or syrup providing sweet ening is used in salad construction New crop figs and raisins have made their appearance also prunes and i few dates.
 VEGETABLES
 Beets, $1.25-$1.5o bushel; 2-2 14c pound.
 Beans, Florida, wax, s4.5O bushel, 14-15c quart.
 Celery, bleached, flats. s dozen; 16 1-2 bunch; bleached 65-75c dozen; 5 1-2-6 1-4c stalk.
 Carrots $1.75-$2 cwt.; 3-4-3c pound.
 Cabbage $1.25-$2 barrel; 1-4-2c pound.
 Cauliflower, $15O-$3.5O dozen; 1O- 16c head.
 Lettuce, head, $1.5o-$2.25 crate, r. SC head.
 Onions, Conn. vally. $1.75-s2.25 cwt.; 1 3-4-2 1-4c pound; local $2- $2.50 cwt; 2-2 1-4c pound.
 Peppers, $1.5O bushel, Sc quart.
 Potatoes, Maine and New Jersey, S27O-$29O cwt., Al 1-4-43 1-4c peck. Native, No. 1, $S-$3.35 cwt., 45-5Oc peck; sweet, $5.25$6 barrel, 3-5 1-2c pound.
 Parsnips, $1.5O bushel
 Squash, winter, S1.50-$2 barrel, 1 1-2-2c pound.
 Spinach, $2.25-s275 barrel; 1S-2Sc peck.
 Turnips, white, 5O-75c bushel, 1 1-4-1 1-2c pound; yellow, $1.40-$2 cwt., 1 3-4-2 1-4c pound.
 FRUITS
 Apples A grade, winter, $6-$6.50 barrel $1-$1.1O basket; B grade, win ter $3-$45O barrel, 50-75c basket; fancy western, $2.5O-$3.75 bu. box; 18-4Oc dozen.
 Bananas, hands, s3-$3.5O bunch, 25-3Oc dozen.
 Grapes, Spanish, $s-s12 keg, 1S-24c pound; Emperors, $2.50$2.75 box; 10-11c pound.
 Lemons-Cal, $8-$9 box, 25-3Oc dozen.
 Oranges, Florida, $6-s7 box, 9O- 1 40c dozen.
 Peanuts, Jumbo, 17c pound.
 Pears, fancy Cal, $9.75-$4.50 box, 1-2-4 1-2c each.
 These prices represent the approXf- mate cost to the retailer when buy ing in unbroken packages. Consum- CTS should expect to pay, on the av- craze, an advance over these prices of from 20 to 40 per cent, to cover the retailers costs of doing business and his legitimate profits.
 G. M. STACK, l Local Market Reporting Service