The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-21
BRIDGEPORT MARKET
 REPORT
Bridgeport, Nov. 21, 1918, SSt Main Street. Tel. Noble 25O. Market Guide for Bridgeport
 Consumers

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 Market Guide for Bridgeport
 Consumers.
 Prepared by the local City Market ing Agent of the Bureau of Markets, U. $. Department of Agriculture Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce and Bridgeport Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association, Cooperating.
 ABUNDANT-AppIes, cabbage, on- ions, Cal. grapes, potatoes, turnips.
 NORMAL-Beets, bananas, carrots, spinach, squash, sweet potatoes, lem ons, caulif1ower, grapefruit.
 SCARCE-Beans, cranberries, or- anges, peppers, pears, lettuce. No War Prices On Thanksgiving Veg
 etabIes.
 The first real general holiday of the season Is approaching. The first and best the people of the nation have had opportunity to celebrate for many years. The new Thanksgiving day has greater meaning to the people of the country and in every home there are more thankful house. wives since the first Thanksgiving 1 day. The Patriotic housewife, alive to the past sentiment and part she must play in preparing the dinner in- vartably considers securing supplies | in advance.
 Vegetables
 Vegetables and fruits are necessary for this event and should be pur- chased early before prices advance due to a greater demand. All the root crop vegetables are abundant and cheaper at present that they i will eventually rise in price is a fact When convenient, onions, potatoes beets, carrots, and turnips should bf secured early before the Thanksgiv- 1 ing rush arrives.
 Turnips, the golden yellow kind are arriving in vast quantities daily Hubbard squash just right for pies onions, turnips, beets and carrots are all selling for 2c per pound whole, sale and in some instances less, ac. cording to quality. They represen full value for the food contained ant will keep in ordinary storage.
 These prices represent the approxi 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 bushes! and his legitimate profits.
 Beets, $1.25 bushel, 2 1-2-3c ID
 Beans, southern, S3,25-$4.5O bushel ! 11-14c quart. Celery, bleached, flats, $1.5O-$2 dz hearts punches, soc dozen, 1-2 bunch; bleached, 65-85c dozen, 1-2 7c stalk.
 Carrots $7-$1.5O cwt.; II 1-2c IL
 Cabbage, $1.25-$2.OO barrel, 1 1-2 Pc pound.
 cauIihower, s2.oO crate, 1928 head.
 Lettuce, head, ss-ss.75 crate 12 1-2c head.
 Onions, Conn. Valley, $1.75-$2.2 cwt., 1 3-4-2 1-4c pound.
 Peppers, $1-$1.50 bushel, 3-4c at. Potatoes, Maine, $2.50-$2.9O cwt 37 1-2-43 1-4c peck; native, $3-$3.3 ? cwt., 45-5Oc peck; sweet, $5.5O-$7.O( : 3c-4 1-2c pound. . Parsnips, $1.5O-$1.75 bushel. . Squash, winter, $1.50-$2 bushe 1 1-2-2c pound.
 Spinach, $225-$2.75 barrel, 1923 s peck.
 :. Turnips, white, 5o-75c bushe ,, 1-4-1 1-2c pound; yellow, $1-$1.5 e cwt., II 1-2c pound. { Fruits
 e Apples, fancy, $6-$750 barrel, $1 e $1.25 basket; local, Baldwin, $4.5C . S6 barrel 75c-$1.OO basket; westerl
 fancy, $2.5O-$3.75 box, 18-4Oc dozel g Bananas, hands, $4OO bunch, 35 T dozen.
 e Cocoanuts, s8-ss.5O bag, 8-s 1-2 Il each.
 s Grapes, Spanish, $SOO-$120o ke . 16-24c pound; Emperor, $2.OO-$2.i
 box. 8-11c pound. s Lemons, Cal, $6.O0$7.50 box, 2. a 28c dozen.
 v V Oranges, Florida, $45O-s5.Oe bo = 30-96c dozen. = Peanuts, Jumbo, 17c pound.
 Pears, fancy Cal, $3.75-$4.50 bo if 1-2-4 1-2c each. .e Cranberries, $100O-$11.O6 barre st 10-11c pound. l. Almonds, soft shell, 35c poun le hard shell, 25c pound. 1t G. M. STACK, l. Local Market Reporting Service