The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-20

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 during last week and 1929 dcring the week last year.
 Cabbage markets irregular: Values were weak at Colorado shipping points. Various types ranged 40 to roc per 100 pounds wagon loads cash to growers closing at the low part of the range Ohio cabbage was steady in Pittsburgh at $1.50 to $1.75 per 100 pounds and New York stock in Pittsburgh ranged $1.75 to $2.15. Nearby cabbage in 65-80 pound crates at s1 to $1.5O in Chicago. Illin- ois and Iowa ranged $20-$35 bulk per ton. Shipments 218 cars compared 146 and 172 same week last season. The Wisconsin commercial cabbage crop is reported promising especially on the low lands but more rain is needed on highlands. Conditions are favorable in most cabbage sections of New York.
 Apple market steady: Early red ap pies from Delaware reported in the Boston market at s2$3 per bushel early in the week, closing lower at $1.50 to $2. Delaware and Maryland Gravensteins sold Philadelphia SITS to $2 per bushel. Eastern transpar- ents and Duchess also were in lead ing nearby markets at $1.50 to s2 per bushel. Illinois and Michigan transparents steady in Chicago at $1-S2 per bushel and Duchess at 75c to $1.
 Clutches as high as g in Cincinnati and $2.25 in Cleveland. Wolf Rivers and Wealthys were firm in St. Louis at s4.e$5.5O per bbl Calif. Craven steins were steady at $4-$4.50 per box in Chicago. Shipments 7o4 cars com pared with GA last week and $50 same week last season, The apple crop in Y akima county, Wash, is reported un- usually clean and free from insect pests. The fruit is of good size and may overrun earlier estimates. The probable shipment from the Wena- tchee district is estimated by the dis trict Horticullurs at 95OO cars. The fruit is clean and of good size. Wine saps are a heavy crop but jonathans and Rome Beauties are light, pros poets continued good in Wayne coun- ty New York. and yield may be double that of last year. The Penn sylvania crop reporting service re- ports the commercial Apple Crop at ,573,O0O barrels compared with a four year average of 9S9, ,oG0. Nova Scotia Apple Crop will be about 50 per cent Of last year, according to the Canad- ian fruit commissioners report In 1919 Nova Scotia produced 1.600, GOO of total Canadian commercial crop of 3,334 ,000 barrels.
 Few advance sales of the Main Ap- pie crop have been reported from pro- ducing sections. Unofficial quotations | ranged around B per box for standard | late kinds in the Northwest around l s5 per bibl. for Ben Davis in the West | and s6 per bbl. asked. S4 offered in East and Southwest. Dealers assume I .,.4 -f barrels complicates the situation The opening of the export season will be watched with interest. The crop is reported short in Europe and the Can adian crop much below last year, af- fording possibility of supplying 1 from the United tSates a good part of the foreign demand
 WATEIFaMELONS CONTINUE FIRM | Best prices of the week for Georgia Melons were obtained in New York Pittsburg and Chicago and lowest | sales were in Philadelphia, Baltimore
 Georgia Tom Watson medium ranged
 ss. .o0- s5.50 in New York and Pitts
 burgr at $225 to 4.50 bulk in Philadel-
 phia and Baltimore ~7ncinnatti s. s4.5O bulk and Chicago $3. .00-S5. 50 Texas Tom Watsons medium bulk 10t
 pound basis 65c to s1.25 carloads f. o. b
 cash, track. Texas Melons in Kansas City and Minneapolis s2.-$3., bulk 1Ot
 pounds. Missouri melons S175-s375s cal load fob. cash track at Missouri points. Arkansas and Missouri me.
 dium Tom Watson S3o0-s550 bulk cal Chicago and s250- $41O in St. Louis Shiprn ents 2,6S5 cars compared 2,52t
 during last week and 2,o52 last sea-
 son.
 OTHER FRUITS AND vEGETA- BLES: The celery crop in Kalama-
 zoo is about usual acreage and free
 from blight of disease, but some fields
 have a high percentage of defective and miSshapen plants Caulif1ow shipments expected to begin from
 Suffolk county, New York, the third
 week in August, movement will nor
 be heavy before October 1. Acreage
 is reduced 25 per cent on account o1 plant shortage. California Thompson seedless grapes in four basket crates s2.75-s370 at auction in Boston. 4 few sales of malagas5 at s5.50-S6. 55 North Carolina basket crates of Della. wares sold at s175-s2 in Philadelphia early in the week. Big Boston lettuce steady in leading markets at s1.25 tc S1.75. Michigan lettuce in Chicago 75c to SIPS. Lima beans g. 50 to $3ot
 per bushel hamper, Baltimore. Penn,
 sylvania yellow onions steady 1T
 Pittsburgh at $3-s3.5o per 100 pound
 sack an-. Massachusetts in Boston s2 New Jersey five-eights bushel baskets yellow varieties 45c.