The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-02-24
NEWS FROM THE STATE
| MARKETING BUREAU

Wholesale quotations for Thursday,
February %, 1922, reported to State
Marketing Bureau, All st. James
building, Jacksonville, Fla.
jacksonville
Light receipts, market steady;
beans, cauliflower, lettuce, tomatoes,
oranges, wanted, quotations firm.
eggs weak, overloaded poultry
wanted
New York City
String beans, three cars, liberal eX-
press receipts, market slightly weak
er, Floridas, hampers, green, best,
$4.00@4.50, few 500, wax $4.00@5.00,
poorer low as $500; tomatoes, nine
cars, moderate demand, market
steady, Floridas, skies, best, $4.50@
500. choice, $3OO@3.5O, few 1913, ZIG,
$1.75@2.00; strawberries, five cars,
moderate demand, market steady, per
quart, best, 35@4Oc, poorer, 2503Oc;
ca bbage, twenty-five Florida, three
New York, two South Carolina, linn
tied demand, market dull, Floridas
ildlupeIS, w dhelclu, P1UVD1.1G 1-Gt
poorer, 75c; lettuce, Florida, thirty
four, California four arrived, market
steady, Floridas, hampers, head, best,
$2.75@325, mostly, $500, poorer $3.50
@2.50; romaine, best, $2.25@2.56, few
$2.75; celery, twenty Florida arrived,
market dull, crates, best, 6s, $2.50@
800, few 1925, poorer, small, $1.25@
200; escarole, six Florida arrived.
market dull, hampers, $1.25@L50;
other commodities too few sales to
quote.
Boston
Oranges, nineteen cars arrived,
market firm, brights and goldens,
mostly $4.OO@45O. fancy $500;
grapefruit, fourteen mars arrived,
slow demand brights and goldens
$2.5O@3OO, few $3.50; celery. four
cars arrived, market weak, crates, 81
to dozen, $325@375, IS, $3.25@ |
$50; lettuce, three cars arrived, ac-
tive demand, crates, $500; tomatoes,
one car arrived, moderate demand.
crates. fancy, many green, $3.50;
strawberries. one car arrived, per
quart. 5O@55c; escarole, two cars ar
rived, hampers, $1.5O@1E5; endive,
hampers, $2OO@2.25; beans, weaker,
hampers, green, $4.0O@450, poorer, |
$500; peppers, market firm, fancy |
crates, $4.O0@4.50, choice $900@3.25;
eggplant, firm, crates, $400@4.50;
cabbage, two cars, not quoted.
Philadelphia
Beets, one car. weak, crates, loose,
$1.OO@1.50; cabbage, twelve cars.
weak, hampers, 75c@$1.15, mostly so
weaker, crates, As and IS, $250@3.00,
IS, $2.5O@2.75, los, $2.00@2.25; let
tuce, nineteen cars, firm, hampers,
best, $2.50@3.25, few $500, poorer,
$1.50@2.25; romaine, $250@3.00; |
peppers, crates, fancy, $500, choice
$500, red $500; tomatoes, six cars,
skies, fancy, best. $4.00@4.50, poorer
$3.OO@3.50. choice, best, $3.00@3.50,
poorer. $2.O0Q2.5O, gems and crooks,
s135@1.75; strawberries, per quart, |
best, 35@45c, few SOC, poorer ESQ |
zoe; string beans, slow, green and
wax. hampers, best, $4.00@6.00.
Cincinnati
No Florida vegetables offered: |
strawberries, no arrivals; cabbage, no
arrivals, supplies liberal, slow de-
mand, weak, hampers, $100; grape
fruit, three cars, supplies liberal, slow
demand market firm, brights and
goldens, $3.10@3.65, mostly $1,000 I
3.45; oranges, ten cars, supplies lib
eral, market steady, Floridas. brights
and goldens, $4.5O@4.95, mostly $40
@4.7G.
Chicago
Oranges, firm; grapefruit, steady:
beans, steady; celery, steady; prices
unchanged; eggplant, about steady,
crates, top, S4.O0; peppers, steady,
crates, fancy, $500; lettuce. stronger,
hampers, fancy, $4.25@4.5O; straw