Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-04-06
BOSTON WHOLESALE MAR
KET REVIEW
For Week Ending April 8, 1922
Dairy & Poultry Products:

Due to heavier receipts of fine but
Ter ana easier adyices from other
markets the butter market became
unsettled, declined and finally closed
steadier at 36Rc on fresh Western
extras and SIC on Northern extras
Offerings not liberal but dealers
anxious to move surplus stock and
buyers taking only for immediate
needs. Storage has been dull in SYM
pathy with fresh. Many samples
being shown. but only q few deals are
conSummated. Good demand for
oo-o9 score IN a small way around
55-54c. The limited offerings of fine
eggs together with the good demand
ana firm advices at country buyipg
points has held the egg market up.
An easier tendency is evident but il
Is generally thought that present
values will hold until after Easter.
western firsts range from 2G-27c
generally, with premiums for quality.
Storage packed are too costly 20
meet buyers views and are slow
around 2S12c on CARROTS and &c for
small lots. Nearby hennerys slow
around SOC and accumulated IN some
quantities. Cured cheese still firmly
held, Twins 24-2412c. Young Ameri-
cas- up to 2i12c. Held goods becom-
ing scarce. Trade on fresh cheese
quiet. Lower country markets caused
weaker feeling and 1sc decline on
Monday. Arrivals of fresh killed
poultry light but heavier receipts ex-
aS-35c. Western 25-34c. Live poul-
try firm with light receipts moving
well. Fowls 29-31c. Chickens 26-31c.
Maple syrup in liberal supply and not
active 1.75 about outside on lots OF
any size. Quality brings slight
premium.
Fruits and Vegetables:
New southern vegetables in liberal
supply, prices tending downward.
Apples, unchanged. best New York
State Baldwins selling $3.50; No.
l Maine Starks from cold storage
S6.50-7.00 barrel. Texas cabbage
lower. S20O-o5O barrel, Alabama
S2.5O-2.75 crate, California cauli-
flower lower, s1.50-2O0 crate. Florida
celery scarce. higher, at S350-450
crate. Native dollhouse lettuce bare
~ steady at $500 busheI box, and
California Iceberg s5.O0-65O a crate.
Egyptian onions lower at $500 per
100 lb. saclk First car Texas onions
sold $500 q crate. Maine potatoes
steady at s1.75-1.90 per 100 ID. sack
First Florida potatoes of season sold
In, n 60.
folk spinach weak. S2.50-3.0O a barrel
Louisiana strawberries weak at Is
20c a pint. Florida tomatoes plenti-
full and weak at s1.25-325 a crate
according to size.
Brighton Live Stock and Dressed
Meat Market:
Market on live stock barely steady
with good and medium steers and
oxen selling at s4.50-650; cows and
heifers 100000; Gamers and cut
ters S1.75-2.25 per 100 lbs. Under
liberal supply, veal, calves were s1.0(
! lower. Light lots We're $to-00-11. 81
per 100 lbs. Hogs found a ready out
let at S10.50-11.00 per 100 lbs
Dressed beef trading was fair with
good steers at S12.50-13O0, medium
$12.00-12.50 called soc higher. Cows
under light receipts and fair demand
sold at s10.50-1100 for good ant
| s10.00-10.50 for medium. Receipt.
of veal were liberal and under slow
demand, prices barely steady; West
ern medium s11.00-13.O0, Brighton
dressed s6O0-10.OO, country dressed
S16 90 & On and chnica con M % a.
per 100 lbs. Light receipts of lambs
slow demand, prices barely steady
choice at s2800-29.O0 and goot
s27.00-2s.00 per 100 lbs. Mutton con
tinues steady with good s20.00-21.0 OF