The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-03-25
BOSTON PRODUCE MARKET
Week Of Mareh u. 70. lee
ip-epared by the United States Bureau
of Markets)
Fruits and Vegetables

, Fruits and vegetables
Apples. onions and potatoes, which adj
vanced last week. receded again this
! week. Cabbage spinach and tomatoes
closed higher. cauli1ower much lower, and
other important lines practically un-
changed.
New York State Baldwin apples were
slightly lower at $5.00-$5.75 per barrel.
Some highly colored Massachusetts, Bald
wins sold IS. Sc 90, while fresh pack,
common storage Maine Baldwins sold
| $4.00S5.00.
New York State Danish cabbage ad-
vanced slightly from the disastrously
low prices of last week to 75c-$1O0 a
barrel. New Texas cabbage held steady
at $2.50-S3.00 a barrel, but advanced
California caulifiower dropped under
heavy receipts from an opening price of
$3.50 So 90 to $150-$2.0 per crate.
Florida oranges and grapefruit continue
plentiful and moderate in price, selling
mostly $325-s4.00 per box for oranges
and $300-s4 so for grapefruit, depending
| on quality and size. California Iceberg
Connecticut Valley onions declined 10c
under heavy receipts to S1.00-$1.15 per
100 ID. bag. Norfolk spinach was de-
pressed under heavy supplies to $500
$3.50 per barrel, but recovered to $3.50
at the end of the week.
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last weeks gain, closing at s135-$1.50
per 100 bl. bag. Canadian rutabaga tur-
| nips were steady at $20 so. 25 per 40
Id. bag. Native grown Green Hubbard
squash continues in good demand at &C.
! &c per pound
Native grown beets were unchanged at
! $l.O0-$1.50 and turnips at 75c-S1 90 per
bushel, while carrots declined slightly to
s1.00- .25 and parsnips sharply to s1.25-
$3.50 per bushel
Native grown dollhouse vegetables sold
at the following prices: cucumbers $780,
$1,000; dandelions $3.50; and lettuce Zoe
$1.25 per bushel;. radishes 40c- Coo a dozen
punches; and rhubarb 13c-15c and to-
matoes 20c-30c per pound.
Dairy and Poultry Products
POULTRY seems to be the only one Of the
dairy products that can hold it's own in
the up and down markets noted recently,
and even this has had none too healthy
position until the holiday demand served
to clean up the surplus supplies of fresh
birds. Fancy roasting chickens have
been in especial demand prices on these
advancing to 4Sc for the best and 45c
for the As pound sizes with a few capons
reaching up to soc
Eggs have been accommodating and the
money situation and general unsettled
feeling in regard to what will be the low
price Of the season has caused trade to
, hold off buying for speculation and
storage, and prices have receded steadily
The ordinary grades of western eggs are
now 2c-4c lower than a week ago Near
by eggs have been held back by the
farmers for Matching purposes and prices
on these have not been influenced to as
great an extent, fancy brown hennery
eggs now bringing 37c-40c. with demand
good.
The butter market has been the weak
est OF the lot, prices dropping steadily
nant do
hdence, and usual, the extreme dull
trade has contributed to force prices
lower than necessary. Fresh fancy 90-92
score Is selling at 43c-45c and storage
OF the same grade slow at 4Oc-42c.
Brig. Gen. John w. Ruckman, COM
mander of the first coast artillery dis
trict, in an address before the Provi-
dence. Chamber of Commerce, urged
that immediate steps be taken to
strengthen the Notifications of the
New England coast from Maine to
Connecticut with special reference to
the naval base at Newport.
Massachusetts has been allowed an
appropriation of $4,000 by the U. S.
Senate as final payment on the cost
of civil war coastal Notifications
which the state erected at its own ex-
pense. Senator Lodge said it was
the last of a series of payments al
states which spent money for FORTH
cations during the civil war
The faculty of the University of
Main failed to receive salary checks
last week for the first time in the his
tory of the institution covering more
than half a century. This was
said to be due to the action Of state
ofneials in Withholding funds on the
ground that the biennial appropriation
of 1919 is exhausted and that the
present Legislature has made no pro-
vision thus far for the institution.
The Vermont House Of Representa-
lives defeated the bin presented by
the state board of education. which
would have provided for a teachers
college to be conducted as a part of
the University of Vermont. The
measure carried an appropriation of
5000, 0e0, and was introduced in con-
'ormity with the provisional offer last
summer of 100000 for such an insti-
ution by the Carnegie Foundation.
The passing of the free lunch coun-
Ter incidental to the closing of saloon
bars was responsible for the depres~
zion in sardine prices, which packers
say are now below the cost of pro-
iuction and close to pre-war figures.
resulting from increased
Of foreign sardines af-
.er the war was another factor. Al
.hough the 1920 pack of Maine sar-
lines is said to have been more than
100000 cases short of that of 1919.
more of last years sardines are aeld
n storage here than usual owing TO
ne poor demand and the unwilling