Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-02
Boston Wholesale Market
Review
For Week Ending October 81, 1922
Dairy and Poultry Products


Butter market continues firm with
prices full cent higher on extras
and a half cent advance on other
scores. Trade has been very active
the past week and a large volume of
butter has changed hands. Buyers
are buying in excess Of their i'm
mediate needs and are accumuatinE
butter for future requirements.
Stocks of fresh butter are compare
lively light and considerable Of the
trading for the week has been on
storage goods. Western extras SELL
ing at 4Sc with ac premium being
asked for on especially desirable lots.
Northern extras iSac-49c. Cheese
market is very firm with a slight ad-
vance in prices on all styles. There
has been a fair amount OF trading
mostly on fresh York State Twins
and Wisconsin single Daisies. Inquiry
for Young America is showing some
improvement with sales reported at q
vide range Of prices. Buyers are
taking larger blocks in anticipation
Of future requirements. Held cheese
: is moving slightly better at prices on
parity with fresh goods. Twins
25 1-2c-26 lee. Daisies 20 1-2c-26
lac. Young Americas 25lc-27c. Eggs
: remain firm on top grades which are
very short and in good demand.
There arc liberal offerings of medium
and ordinary fresh arrivals at a wide
range of prices but buyers as a rule
demand fine quality only and sales
are hard to make on the cheaper
eggs. Ordinary receipts 3Oc-43c
Firsts 44c-53c. Extra firsts 55c-GOc.
Extras G1c-56c. Storage eggs are
moving slowly as buyers are not in
clined to speculate and buy beyond
their immediate needs. Refrigerator
firsts 2Ssc-29ac. Extra firsts 3Oc- 30tc.
Dressed poultry firm on heavy fowl
and heavy chickens with lighter
chickens slightly easier Heavy fowl
(4s-6 lb. ave.) 33c-35c. Chickens
(3-3l lib. ave.) 27c-2Sc, (3a-4t lib. av.)
31c-32c. Broilers e lbs.j very short
37c-tOc; t.a-3 1b.) 3sc-34c. Live
poultry market rules about steady
under moderate demand. Fowl
21c-26c. Chickens 21c-23c. Leg
hornG 1Sc-20c.
Shipped in Fruits and Vegetables
Cranberrics. lettuce and potatoes
advanced, but nearly all other lines
were steady or dull. Native-Applcs
plentiful but steady at $2.50-s3 80 a
tushel box for Mcintosh and s1.C0-
$1.25 for Baldwins. Beets steady at
1.00-$1.50 and carrots lower at 15c-
$1.00 bushel. Caulif1ower higher at
1.50-S $500 a box. Celery firm at
$3.25-sS.00 box for white and $500
$3.50 for pascal Cucumbers steady
lat $6.00-s12.00 box. Greenhouse
lettuce higher at e5c-S5c a box.
Parsnips unehange-. at $125-s175 a
box. Radisl1es steady at 5Oc-Gsc
box. Squash steady at 2.o0-s2.70 a
barrel. Spinach firm at 5Oc-75c
box. Turnips dull at 75c-s1OO
bushel. Hothouse tomatoes 25c-30c
pound. Shipped in-Best PonnsyI-
vania York Imperial apples steady at
$3.50. and New York Mcintosh at
$500 a barrel. Norfolk green beans
higher at s4.00-s4.50 a five peck
hamper. Connecticut Brussels sprouts
steady at 10c-15c Il quart. New York
State Danish cabbage dull at s1.10-
s1.25 barrel. Massachusetts cram
berries active at $10.00-$12.00 a bar
rel for Early Blacks and $13.00-$13.50
for Howes. New York State Concord
grapes in excessive supply and lower
at 50c-G0c per IL quart basket, or
about Ia as high as the price this
time last year. Good New York
State lettuce active at $500 crate,
but much poor lettuce selling at
lower prices. Michigan onions firm
at $1.75$1.S5 per 100 lh. bag and
Massachusetts onions at s1.O0-slc5
bag. Maine potatoes advanced be-
cause of car shortage at shipping
points to 1.5o-$l.60 per 100 lib. bag
for Green Mountain and si.25-$1.40
for Cobblers. Virginia sweet pota-
toes weak at s1.75-s1.s5 a barrel.
distributed through the Boston or.
fee of the U. S. Department OF Agr~
culture. Bureau of Agricultural
Economcs)