Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1921-03-01
BOSTON PRODUCE MARKET
WEEK OF FEBRUARY A-ts, 1921
prepared by United States Bureau OF
MarketS)
Fruits and Vegetables

Fruits and Vegetables
Lower prices for potatoes. onions. let
tuce, turnips and spinach prevailed this
week, other lines remaining about steady
Common storage apples are about
cleaned up nearly all offerings now be-
ing from cold storage. New Hampshire
Baldwin apples were steady this week at
S. 00-$5sO per barrel and New York
State Baldwins at $4.50-6.60. Maine AMI
New York State Danish cabbage was in
slow demand at s126-31.6o per barrel
while new Florida cabbage declined from
8. .00-$3.7s per crate early IN the week to
$100-$3.50 at the close California Ice
berg lettuce opened at s3.00s35o per
crate, declined under heavy supplies TO
$3.00-$2.25 by Thursday. but showed
signs Of recovery at the close Of the week.
Cape Cod cranberries were in light
supply and firm at $16.00-$20.o0 90 per bar
rel, Connecticut Valley onions opened at
81. 00-$1.25 per 100 pound bag but declined
to 75c-s1 90. Texas spinach, which sold
at S1.00-$l.5O per bushel last week, again
declined to $1.00-sl.25. Maine ant Ohio
Green Hubbard squash was in good de-
mand at s120-s11 per ton bulk.
Aroostook County potatoes lost 1Oc from
last week, closing at sl.25-Sl4o per 100
pounds. Delaware and New Jersey sweet
potatoes were about steady at $1.75-S200
per bushel. The first carlot shipment Of
Florida Strawberries arrived this week
and brought $4,000 per quart for the best,
with soft and moldy berries selling down
to l6c.
Native grown turnips declined 10 60
TIC per bushel. and Canadian rutabagas
to S1.50-s1.75 per 40 pound bag. Other
native root vegetables were steady at
the following prices:-Per busha: Beets.
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nips. $1.50-sl75.
Dairy and Poultry
Taken as a whole, local dairy markets
have been irregular. but gains have more
than Offset losses and the week has
shown a slight advance in prices Trade
has turned from storage to fresh butter.
and the increased demand has sent prices
rapidly upward. the fresh butter advanc-
ing about 4c and storage 1c- At the
close fancy fresh 92 score was bringing
4Sc. and storage 4S-44c.
Egg prices, as customary at this time
Of year have been very erratic. prices
for fresh westerns first" dropping from
&c down to 34-35c and selling back to
1-3Sc Receipts have been liberal. have
Included seven cars OF eggs shipped from
China and Japan, and have been more
than the demand could clean up, 30 prices
have reacted to the daily supplies. Near
by eggs have not been as plentiful how
ever, and prices for these have ranged
about unchanged at 46-5oc.
Cheese has been selling well, but the
demand for something cheaper has af-
fected prices as in other commodities
Fresh cheese has sold readily at 4-3Sc,
but top grades Of older, cured lots have
gone slow at 26-29c. Country markets
have been about unchanged.
Neither dressed nor live poultry have
shown any marked changes, but have had
opposite tendencies, the dressed and
frozen birds being easier and slightly
lower while live fowl had been trmer
Very top grades Of soft meated chickens
and fowl have been moving but other
grades are dragging with many expect
ing a drop in values. Fowl have ranged
36-42c and chicken 35-5oc according TO
size and quality. The live fowl from
nearby points went generally at 1880
with western receipts at A-S7c. while
chickens ranged 1850.