The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-08-02
Small Fruits and Garden
Stuff Scarce and High
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there no wind-falls, and very few
productive local orchards? By
This time of year, usually, there
are green apples in every grocery
store and farmers and market gar,
deners are peddling them from
house to house. The apple cror
locally this year is light, but
there is an abundant crop promis.
ed in other localities and some OF
them ought to be rolling this way
The only new apples to reach the
local markets up to date this
season are from Delaware anC
they II cents "a pound. That
with sugar up for the canning
season, makes "green apple sass
and new apple pies an expensive
luxury with dog days nearly
over, the nights cool, the coal bin
empty and winter fast approach
inp.
Local prices this week: Plums
% to 80 cents a dozen, according
60 color; tomatoes, 20 cents a
j pound; greenhouse grown toma-
toes, 30 cents; watermelon,
cents a pound; peaches 80 cents a
dOZ.; cantaloupes, two for 80;
pineapples, %; pears, 60 cents a
doz.
Strictly fresh eggs continue to
advance and are now 40 cents a
doz. with 81 cents cents for case
eggs; best butter, 48 cents and
new potatoes on the down grade
in price, but on the up grade for
quality, at As cents a peck. Ma
tive onions, four pounds for Is
cents.
This weeks wholesale quota
tons in the Boston market are as
follows:
Fruit and Vegetables: Supplies
were liberal, with buying with de-
mand only fair and prices on most
lines barely steady or slightly
lower, Delaware Williams early
red apples lower at $1.00-1.50 Blu.
Native green and was beans high
er at $1.25-1.75 a blu. box. Con-
necticut she'll beans lower at SOC
100 a hamper. Native blue
berries lower at 1920 a quart.
Native cabbage higher at $1.00-1.25
barrel. punched carrots slightly
lower at 75c-1 90. Native and
Connecticut sweet corn steady at
S1.25-1,50 a blu box. Good West
ern cantaloupes higher at $500
$50 a standard crate, but most ar
rivals were in overripe condition
and sold S1.50-250 a crate. Cali
fornia honeydew melons lower at
$1.00-1.25 a crate. Massachusetts,
onions steady at mostly $500 per
100 lb sack. New York peas low
ei at SI00-1.75 Blu. basket,
Georgia and North Carolina Ell
bcrta peaches lower under heavy
receipts at mostly S2.00-2.50 a
crate. New Jersey Bell peppers
S1.00-1.25 a hamper. Virginia and
Maryland potatoes lower at $500
325 a barrel. The market in New
York slumped to S200-225 a bar
rel. Tomatoes lower, New Jerseys
at 75c-1.00 a crate.
Brighton live stock and dressed
meat market: Steady on most oil
classes of live stock. Good and
medium steers and oxen $6.50-900,
few $3.50, butcher cattle, cows
and heifers $3.50-6.50, few $500
Receipts of calves light with light
and medium lots going at $1,000
100 and a few choice at $1,000.
Under light supply, hogs were
steady on good, bulk going at
S11.25-S11.75 with heavier aver
ages $10.50-11.00 per 100 lbs,
Fresh meat trading fair. Ship
ments carry all grades. Good
steers sold at S14.50-15.00, medium
S14.O0-14.5O and common $1,000
1900 per 100 lbs. Receipts of
veal light and under fair demand.
Prices steady. Lamb receipts lib
eral. Choice lambs sold at $500
27.00 with good S22.00-25.00 I'm
der slow demand and light receipts
pork is barely steady,
Butter market opened weak on
and continued weak and
until Thursday when
prices recovered slightly and West
ern Extras sold at 36c trading has
been dull all week, buyers only
coming into the market when in
need of butter for immediate use.
Fine butter has been very scarce
with receipts of medium and low
grades liberal and accommodating
Market appears week with West
ern extras quoted at 35l2c and
Extras assorted size
spruce tubs 36-36l2. Cheese mar
ket has been rather unsettled the
past week with tendency toward
lower prices. Eggs ruled weak
this week with liberal receipts of
western eggs. Dealers stocks are
heavy and sales are to make
therefore trading is very dull.
Nearby hennerys continue to ar
rive in moderate numbers but
quality shows effects of the heat.
Current receipts selling today 81
pc. Dressed fowls, demand good
with supplies sufficient to meet de-
mands and selling around 2S31c
On Az to 5 pound birds. Dressed
broilers supplies liberal selling
mostly 36-38c. Live poultry easier
under heavy receipts, Fowl selling
"a o6c with fancy broilers 23-25c.