The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-03-03
NEWS FROM THE STATE.
MARKETING BUREAU

Wholesale quotations for Thursday,
March 2, reported to State Marketing
Bureau, AT st. James Building, Jack
sonville, Fla.
JACKSONVILLE
Market quiet; weather warm; eel
cry, crates, fancy, S3@3.50; lettuce.
head, fancy, hampers, $1.5O@2; toma-
toes, crates. fancy, $2.50@3; no other
changes; eggs weaker; poultry firm,
wanted.
NEW YORK CITY
String beans, limited receipts, mar
ket firm; hampers, green, wax, best.
$4.50@5, few $3.50, poor low as $500;
peppers, one Florida arrived, market
steady, crate, fancy, ordinary condi-
ton, $4,000; choice, $2.5O03; toma-
toes, twenty-one Florida arrived.
slightly weaker market, crates, fancy,
$4@4.5G, choice $9@9.50, PIG $225@
$50; Strawberries, two Florida ar
rived, market steady, per quart, best,
45@oOc, few SOC; poor to ordinary, 20
Q4Oc; cabbage, sixteen Florida, four
New York, one Texas, arrived; limited
demand, market dull; Florida, ham,
pers, best, mostly $125, few low as
81, few at $1.37R, crates $2@225;
lettuce, one California, twentyifour
Florida, market firm; Floridas, ham
pers, head, best, $3.50@4; fair. $2.75@
9.25; poorer, low as 50; romaine, best,
$2.50@3; poorer, 50; celery, eight
Florida arrived, market steady, crates,
best sizes, $3@9.25, few $3.50, small
$2.25@2.50, very small S1.75@2; es-
carole, three Florida arrived market
dull, hampers $125@15O, few SITS.
BOSTON
Oranges, three cars arrived, demand
active, brights, goldens, $5.50@6.50;
grapefruit, four cars arrived, market
steady; brights, goldens, $2.5O@350,
few fancy, S4.50Q5 tangerines, half
straps, brights, few sales, $5@5.50;
tomatoes, three cars arrived; crates,
fancy, $4@4.50; spotted, $3.50; choice,
$3.50@3.75; spotted So; PIGS, $2.50@
8; egg plant, crates, fancy, SiQ4.50;
cabbage, three cars arrived, demand
poor; crates, $2.25@2.50; hampers, 81
! 0L25; lettuce, one car arrived, de-
nland good; crates, "a; strawberries,
slightly better demand, per quart, best
45@50c; peppers, market steady,
crates, fancy, $4@450; choice, $50 |
1925; lima beans, hampers, IS; other
commodities not quoted.
PHILADELPHIA
Cabbage, six arrived, steady; ham,
pers, 9Oc@$1.S5; poorer, 5O@75c; cell
cry, nine arrived, slightly weaker; is,
6s, $3@3.5O; few S3.75@4; SIS, $500 |
I2.75; lettuce, six arrived, stronger; !
hampers, fancy, $4.50@4.75; fair, $50 |
SIS; poor, $1.25Q2.5O; peppers, one
arrived, stronger; fancy, crates, $3.50
05.75; choice, $3.25@3.50; tomatoes,
six arrived, firm; fancy crates, $3.5O@ |
$50; choice. $2.50@S.50; strawberries, |
steady; freight, per quart, 4005Oc; !
poor, 10c; express, 35Q5Oc; string
beans, slow; hampers, green, $500 |
4.5O;, eggplant, crates, So; lima beans,
box, Sc. -
CINCINNATI
Strawberries, slow, steady, best,
per quart, 40@45c, fair 30Q35c, soft |
zoe: cabbage, one arrived, slow de- |
mand, steady, Floridas, hampers, best
$1.2501.40; grapefruit, two arrived, |
market steady, box, brights, S2.95W |
as, fair, $25OQ3.0O, poor condition,
s2.25@2.60, goldens, $2.75q3.25, poor,
s2.25@275; oranges, five Florida ar
rived, stronger, brights and goldens,
$4.5O65.60, mostly $4.70@5.25.
Oranges, light offerings, strong,
brights, $5.Oo@6!oO, goldens, $4.75@
$50, few higher, grapefruit, liberal Of
ferings, market fairly steady, brights,
S3.25Q400, goldens, $S.0O93.75, some
low as $780, russetts, s1.75@S.O0;
beans, eggplant, tomatoes, steady, UNI
changed; peas, steady, hampers, $500
$500; cabbage, very weak; lettuce,
strong, hampers, $3.50; strawberries,
one car arrived, freight, per quart, 40
D5Oc, express 50@55c.