The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-06-06
WATERMELONS
ARRIVE IN THE
LOCAL MARKETS
Boston Wholesale Prices
Show Good Demand
for AL Butter

New fruits and vegetables are
appearing in the local markets
these days in great variety, and
help the ordinary householder
solve the observation-disclosures
problem until their own backyard
gardens and kitchen patches can
supply the demand for green
stuff.
There have been quite distin-
guished list of arrivals this week.
they are welcome. Watermelons,
cantalOupes, peaches, pineappleS
and the expected supply of sUnng
beans, rhubarb, spinach, onions
and all the rest of the appetizing
filters.
Georgia peaches sell for from 80
to 40 cents a dozen; cantaloupes,
% cents each; pineapples, 25
cents each; watermelons, 10 cents
a pound. Jersey strawberries
bring from % to 80 cents a bas-
ket. New potatoes cost 80 cents
a peck.
Butter retails in St. Johnsbury
from 80 to 45 cents a pound and
fresh eggs sell readily from 25 to
80 cents a dozen.
The current prices the past
week in the Boston wholesale
market follow:
Dairy and Poultry products -
Butter morket opened with a weak
feeling but has steadied. Buyers
are looking for butter and are tax
ing fairly good sized blocks for
storage purposes. Considerable
butter has gone into storage the
last few days for long holds and
some dealers put in butter the first
of the week for short hold rather
than sell at a loss.
Cheese maket has been dull the
past week, very little trading being
done in a wholesale way. Supplies
are very liberal but buyers are not
in evidence. Dealers have advanced
their prices baSing them on the
higher country costs and they are
holding firm to their asking prices.
There is an easier tone to the
dressed poultry morket with foylS
especially hard to move. A few
broilers are arriving but supply is
light. Dressed broilers around So
SOC, fowls 32-35c. Live poultry re-
ceipts are light, broilers 47-48c,
fowls 30-31c.
Fruits and vegetables Most
spring vegetables in heavy supply,
with the price trend steady to low
er. Native asparagus $1.00 lower at
$4.00-700, Blu. Native punched
beets $1.75, and beet greens, soc
$1.00 bu. box. Native carrots
scarce and higher at $350-400
blu. Virginia cabbage plentiful and
lower at $1.00-1.75 ner 100 ID. crate
Alabama and Carolina cucumbers
in oversupply and lower at $1.0O-
1.25 a Blu. hamper. Florida and
Georgia cantaloupeS, fair to poor
quality, lower at $3.00-3. 80 crate.
Norfolk caulihoWcr lower at S1.00-
1.25 a hamper. Native lettuce in
heavy supply and lower at 4O-65c
a box, but California iceberglettuce
scarce and higher at $3.50 crate.
Texas onions steady at mostly
$1-30- TO Crate. Baltimore green
peas lower at S1.d0-3.00 a bu.
Maine potatoes in heavy supply
and lower at 90c-$L00 per cwt.
Trade Is turning to new potatoes
which were firm at S6.O0-6.50 a
barrel. Native radishes and rhu-
barb lower at 50-75c a bu. box.
Maryland and Delaware strawbcr-
ries lower at from 10 to 20c.
Brighton livestock and dressed
meat Notwithstanding at Bright
on has been SteaGy with good and
medium steers and oxen going at
H.5O-7.50, butcher cattle cows and
helterS $3.30-6.00; bulls $4.50-5.50.
Veal calves continued steady with
light and medium lots $90011O.0O, !
Hogs were steady with bulk of
sales $11.25-11.75. Dressed beef
trading continued slow with good
steers at $13.50-14O0, medium
$13.00113.50.
Lambs arrivals light in numbers
but heavy in weight. Mutton ar
rivals fat with few good kinds !
available. Pork receipts moderate. |