The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-23
LOCAL MARKETS

Housewives of Birmingham now
 have the opportunity of canning pears
 for consumption next winter, first
 consignments of preserving pears ap-
 rearing on Morris avenue yesterday
 morning. These pears are first quality
 and are being quoted at $1.50 per
 bushel. New York Bartlett pears, ex-
 cellent for table purposes, will ar
 rive about the middle of the week.
 They are quoted at s4.25 per bushel First shipments of Malaga grapes
 are arriving, carload being opened yesterday morning. The grapes are
 of excellent quality, and are being quoted at S3.50 per 24-pound crate. Elberta peaches are about gone and jumped to s2 per box yesterday as 8 result. California Bartlett pears
 were quoted at s5 per bushel yester-
 day, an advance of 20 cents over 6aturday's quotations. Unusual for the first day of the
 weeks business considerable ship
 ments arrived on the avenue yester- day. All produce was in good shape,
 with attractive prices. Watermelon influence brought 1 drop in the price of bananas yester- day, eight-hand punches weighing | from 50 to 60 pounds, dropping from | 8 to cents per pound. Colorado cabbage is being quoted at cents per pound and Virginia at A cents. Angelus marshmallows dropped from $5 to $4.50 per case or 50 15-cent packages. Quotations furnished on commodi- l. ties sold on local markets yesterday follow:
 1 Poultry, Fruits and Vegetables l (Marshali, Jordan and keith.)
 Eggs-Fresh candled, 34QSsc. Fryers-30c. | Rsns-20@22c.
 Bananas-Eight- hand punches, 50 to 50 pounds, 7c ID. = box; California 360s, $7 box. Oranses-California, s7, all sizes. Apples-Gravestone. sos to l5es, s4.2S Peaches-california Elbertas, s4s, g box.
 Pears-California Bartlett, 1s5s s5 box New York Bartletts, $4.2b bushel basket; |; preserving, $1.bo bushel. Grapes-Malaga, 24 pounds net, S3. 50 crate.
 Cabbage-Colorado, 4c lb.; Virginia, Potatoes--No. l Virginia stock, 10 pecks to sack, 4,ac per lb.; Porto Rico sweets, | pound sacks. 8 sack; X s4 sack; Kentucky yellow. loo-pound ! sacks, s4.25 sack; large washed yellow stock, Washington, 50 sack; b0-pound
 sacks, hc lb. additional. Beans--California lima. large, Sc h.,
 California baby. 7Mc lb: pink beans 7c; l 100 pounds to sack, 7c lb. Peanuts-No.. Virginia stock, 8 hc lb.
 roasted sack lots, 10c lb.: 6o-pound lots. | 13c lb.
 prazil Nuts-.New crop. 14e iS.: less Cheese-Full cream daisies, 24c lb. | Mackerel-100 count, S7 keg. Honey-Twenty-four sections to case, l $6.60
 1 Astelus Marshmallows-Fifty 15c pack ages case, $4.50 case. Live Stock Fed steers: Good to choice. 6M07Mc; ! medium to good. 00Sc; common to me- dium, 204c.
 Grass cattle taceording to weight, Quai- l ity and flesh): Steers, 51186Mc; fat
 cows. 405c; medium cows. 70 4c; cutters l203c; canners. l@lhc; heavy bulls, 30 | 3Mc; light bulls, z02hc; oxen, 204c; fat
 yearlinEs. 39se; medium yearlings. 70 Sc:
 HoEs. Choice corn fed hogs. 1ss and
 up. 30Shc; choice corn fed hogs, 1s5 to
 1Ss. S03tc; choice corn fed hogs. 90 to
 13s, 70Sc; light pigs. 90 pounds and l down, 607c: best heavy rough hogs e 7c i;
 half fat rough hogs. 60Sc; sott and oily
 hogs from lc to 2c per pound less than the 1 above priceA