The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-04-15
BOSTON PRODUCE MARKET
Week of April 40, 1921
Prepared by the United States Bureau
OF Markets
Fruits and Vegetables

Fruits and Vegetables
Apples, oranges and Strawberries were
higher, new crop onions, spinach anu
| sweet potatoes were lower and other I'M
portant lines about steady.
New York State Baldwin apples al
vanced cents a barrel to $500 So.oo.
California asparagus was more plentiiui
and declined $1.00 crate during tne
week to 4.00-6.00. South Carolina aspar-
agus is of poorer quality and closed at
So. $500 a crate.
New crop cabbage is supplying the mar
ket entirely now. Alabama fiat cabbage
In barrel crates remained practlcaiiy
steady at S250-$3.O0 and South Carolina
Wakefield cabbage at $2.00-$2.50.
New Texas Bermuda onions sold Mon
day at $500 a bushel crate but declined
by the end of the week to $2.75-3.OO Old
crop onions were in slow demand at
rs cents $1.00 per 100 pound bag.
Aroostook County potatoes were barely
steady at $125-$1.4O per 100 pounds
sacked. Prices at Maine shipping points
closed is cents lower at $1.10-$1.15 lOo
pounds bulk for CARROTS delivered Boston.
Klondike strawberries from Louisiana
were scarce and 10 cents higher, closing
at 1928 cents a pint.
Spring vegetables are beginning to ar
rive from Southern points. Green peas
Wednesday at s3.5o-s4.00 but declined
later to $2.75-sS.O0. California rhubarb,
mostly of ordinary quality, sold Monday
at $3.00-3.50 per box of 40 pounds, but
later declined to $2.00-2.50. Native grown
rhubarb sold 1915 cents pound.
Native grown dollhouse lettuce was
higher at S1.50-2.00 bushel box. while
cucumbers were lower at IS 100000 box
Native grown beets were higher at
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$2O0-225 a bushel box, while carrots
were unchanged at s1.25-1.5o and turnips
At .75-s1.00 a bushel.
Dairy And Poultry Products
The market as whole has shown no
great changes from last week. and con-
tinues to reflect the uncertain conditions
sharply, then dropped just as rapidly and
is now again on the upturn. Cheese
and Poultry have continued to ease of,
and eggs have held unchanged.
Fresh butter started to accumulate the
first of the week, and with conditions so
unsettled, dealers were quick to drop
prices to clean up stocks, but the de-
cline proved unwarranted, so prices
started up again. Fresh butter is more
plentiful, but there are no prospects OF
further imports for the present, so an
other advance seems likely. Fresh 90
% score is bringing 1880 cents or about
the same as last week, and storage sells
at 40-44 cents.
Cheese has been selling hard, country
prices continuing to drop and buyers
not anticipating their wants at all. Fresh
cheese has been vepy plentiful and has
declined about l cent, Vermont twins
bringing % cents and New York make
1898 1-2 cents. Cured lots selling fair
at 1928 cents.
Eggs, while in considerable disfavor
as a speculation, have been in demand
for regular needs, and top grades are
shade firmer. Heavy receipts from the
southwest especially Texas, and these
have sold mostly at 1926 cents Fine
westerns have had a good demand at
1923 cents and lots packed for storage
at 31-33 cents Nearby eggs not arriv-
ing as freely and about l cent higher
at 35-40 cents.
The lower egg prices have been refiec-
ted in an early kin of poultry. and fresh
fowl are starting to arrive and prices to
decline. Fowl are selling hard at 36-42
cents, chickens scarce at 50-55 cents, and
frozen birds $3.50 cents as to quality
and size Very few live fowl arriving.
and the Jewish holiday is making a
fairly firm market at 1888 cents.
Maple Products
The maple season is about over so
far as quality goods are concerned, and
while supplies were light they were fully
sufficient for needs. Top grades OF syrup
are a little firmer at s1.75-200. with
poorer dark syrup dragging at $3.50
down. Sugar also easier, veuy little
bringing over 2s cents. and most of the
large cakes ranging 20-25 cents with
tubs selling hard around 1920 cents.
Mrs. Emma ]. Dunn of Worcester
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