Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-16
Boston Wholesale Market
Review
For Week Ending November "A. 1922
Dairy and Poultry Products

For Week Ending November "A. 1922
Dairy and Poultry Products
Butter market continues firm on
storage goods and about steady on
fresh. Buyers as rule are taking
storage butter and as result there
has been a lighter demand for fresh
goods and holders OF fresh butter in
some instances are inclined to shade
prices a trifie in order to effect sales.
Tlade on the whole has been rather
quiet as an easier tendency de-
yeloped in other markets and buyers
anticipated lower prices, however
the easiness was only temporary and
ali markets are again firm. Western
extras fresh 49c. Storage 45c. North
ern extras assorted sizes spruce tubs
fresh 49ac-50c. Cheese market rules
about steady with trading very quiet.
The weakness on the Wisconsin mar
kets has caused a cessation of buy
ing as users Of cheese felt that a fur
tier decline was possible and there
fore made no further purchases until
stock on hand had been used up. At
present buyers are working on a con-
sentative basis and sales reported
are mostly in small lots with York
State Twins maxim. up the bulk Of
the trading. Held cheese is moving
out at prices on par with fresh
goods York State twins 26c-26Ac
Single Daisies 25ac-263c. Young
Americas 25ac-e6ac. Egg mar
ket continues firm on fresh top
grades which are comparatively
short, and steady on ordinary and
medium grades which are in liberal
supply and not wanted. Ordinary
receipts 30c-a4c. Firsts 45c-52c. Ex-
ira tirsts 53c-6oc. Extras 63c-72c.
Storage eggs are moving a trifie bet
| ter at prices practically unchanged
although asking prices in some quar-
tiers are higher. Refrigerator firsts
29c-a93c. Extra firsts SOC 3Oac.
Extras sic. Some late June and
some August eggs o6c-21c. Dressed
poultry continues about steady
under a fair demand. Supplies
OF fowl are more liberal selling
Ga-6 lb av.) 33c-35c. Chickens G.
81 lb. av) 27c-2Sc with lib. chick
ems up to sac. Brothers short lb.
av. 3Sc-40c: 2a-3 ID. az. 32c-34c. Live
poultry quality still running poor
with any choice lots bringing a
premium over ordinary arrivals. Fowl
2cc-24c. Chickens 20c-2ec. Leg
horns 1Sc-20c.
Fruits and Vegetables
Trading continued quiet. with
slight downward price changes no
= ticeable on few commodities. Ma
tive: Apples unchanged at $1.25-$1 80
Q bushel box for Baldwins and $3.50
$500 for Mcintosh. White and Savoy
cabbage dull at tees 100 a barrel
Caulifiower steady at sl.5O-s225 a
box. White celery steady at $500
$500 and Pascal at $3o5-s373 box.
Cucumbcrs Il trifle lower at $500
$1,000 q box. Lettuce lower at 40c-
75c 4 box. Parsley DULL at 75c-$1 90
"a box. Radishes declined csc to
S2.o5 $3.50 a box. Squash firm at
So 800 a barrel. Hothouse toma :
toes steady at 25c-3Oc a pound. Root
vegetables unchanged at the follow
ing prices a bushel: Beets and pars-
nips $1.25-S1.50; carrots and turnips
Shire A grade Baldwin apples s400-
$3.50. and Maine unclassif'ed Bald
wins s2.50 $500 a barrel. Norfolk
green beans lower at s2Oo-s225 a 6
peck hamper. New York state Dan
ish cabbage steady at 1900 $40. 90 a
ten. Cranberries lower, due to lib
cral receipts. high prices and the
fact that the Thanksgiving trade has
not yet matcrialized. Prices ranged
5000 $3.50 barrel. Good Western
Iceberg lettuce unchanged at $500
$3.50 crate; onions slightly frmer
a, $1.S5-$o.00 for Michigans and
81 90 $3.50 for Massachusetts per 400
lib. bag. Maine potatoes steady at
i$140-$1.60 per 100 lb. sack. Sweet
potatoes weak s1.65-s175 a bbl.
distributed through tho Boston of
flee of the L. S. Department of Agri :
culture, Bureau OF Agricultural Eco
nomics, 400 Atlantic avenuel