Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-13
VEGETABLE SUPPLY
|SPLENT|FUL HERE
Fall Fruits and Other Prod
uctS on Display at D. c.
Market.

I
of the weeks business yesterday. 1t
is a. trifie early. to make purchases for
the holiday. however, with the exception
/ of the pumpkins. and persons wanting
the largest they can find already have
made purchases.
There will be no shortage of the
/ popular yellow vegetable of the variety
wanted for Halloween celebrations" OBJ
served dealer yesterday, farmers in
Maryland and Virginia having thou
sands of them.
None of the big show pumpkins,
such as came from the Fairfax sec
ton of Virginia last season, has yet
been in evidence" the dealer added.
land should any of them come this
season, they will bring the usual fancy
priceE-possibly 50 or more"
Pumpkin Prices.
Big pumpkins received here the past
week sold at IS. so and rs cents.
They were just the ordinary field
pumpkins" said the dealer. but they
serve Halloween purposes just as we'll
as the more expensive show product"
Few of the smaller sugar pumpkins
also will be used in connection with
| the children's celebrations as well as
for making pies. They sold at about 81
bushel or $3.50 a barrel the past
few days.
Apples promise to be even more plenti-
! full than the pumpkins. reports from
both Maryland and Virginia telling of
we'll filled orchards. and prices promise
to range from 81 to SO bushel.
Chestnuts have not yet been re-
ceived in large quantities. dealers re-
I port, and there is no certainty that
| they will be exceptionally plentiful. 1t
is feared trees affected by the blight
| several years ago have not recovered
| ~
ing died.
Receipts last week were taken by
owners Of stands on street corners and
| others selling "not roasted cfestnuts"
] from wagons Prices ranged around Is
cents a pound. While 1t is believed
there will be nothing like a Cutting of
the market. according to dealers. re-
! ceipts are certain to increase before
nuts are wanted for the celebration.
AS to Autumn leaves, persons en-
| gagged in the sale of them say there will
| be plentiful supplies of them to meet
all demands and expect to have guam
| titles of them to abandon about the
| market places at the close OF market
| Halloween eve. 1t also is realized that
hundreds of motorists will do their own
gathering of leaves.
Closing of the weeks market termin-
ated a business of six days which was
not altogether satisfactory. Receipts of
most commodities continued fairly
| heavy during the week. some of them
being largely In excess Of demands. and
when closing time came, it is stated,
numerous dealers had supplies of vari-
Gus commodities to carry over for the
Monday trade.
Prices of various commodities under
| went changes during the week, meat
and fish prices easing, while egg prices
| we're advanced. Plentiful supplies of
| poultry continued throughout the week.
prices taking a slight drop. Fruits and
vegetables continue in plentiful supplies,
| prices of some varieties becoming
higher, while other prices dropped.
Reports at the close of the weeks
business mentioned prices substantially
the same as prices quoted yesterday and
! Friday.
Butter-One-pou prints, 47a4s; tub,
46a47: store packed, 30a32.
| Eggs-Hennery, Sass; fresh selected,
4Sa50: current receipts, 43a45.
Poultry, alive-Turkeys, hens, 50;
toms, 80; Spring chickens, large, 27a2e;
broiiers, 30; Leghorns, 20: fowls, 20:
Leghorn fowls. 22a23; ROSTERS. ~:
! ducks, Isaac; keats. 60a7o; cid, 35a40
Dressed-Turkeys, 40a42; Spring chick
ems, large, 37a3S; medium, 35a36: broil-
ers, SLABS; Leghorns, IS; ROSTERS, 24a
| IS; ducks, 28a30; keats, 8Oa9O.
Meats-Beef. 20a23; veal, 26a32:
lamb, 26a27; pork loins, 80; fresh hams,
25a28; fresh shoulders, 2Oa23; smoked
hams. 26a28 smoked shoulders, l8a20;
bacon, 20; lard, In bulk, IA; In pack
ages Is.
Live stock--CalveS Is; lambs, 1917
ala.
Immense quantities of honeydews and
honeyballs continued to reach here from
California throughout the week, receipts
| being so heavy that some dealers took
them from crates and sold them in two
peck and bushel baskets.
Just how the shippers will make
out" remarked local dealer, sis a
difhcult question to answer. Expressage
on each crate is said to be approx
mately 81, and the fruit has sold as low
as SIPS crate the past week or two
leaving a margin of IS cents for grow
| ing, gathering and handling"
Local dealers hear that much money
has been lost this season by some of
the shippers, the loss to one firm being
placed at something like $1,000 O0 In
| formation as TO the reported loss, it is
stated. is not definite
Many honeyballs have been taken
from storage the past few weeks, being
so ripe that they had to be disposed of
without delay, and retailers were able
to offer such fruit at the low price of
nickel each.
Prices of honeydews, according to
reports, have been much lower this
season than usual, the small fruit hav-
ing been disposed Of as low as 10 and
Other Fruit Receipts.
| Small quantities of cantaloupes con-
tinue to be received from Colorado and
in few instances yesterday, farmers
had small quantities Of the fruit to
offer, some of them wrapped in news
paper to hasten ripening.
And strange to say" remarked a
grower, many of them were actually
| sweet, an unusual thing for so late in
| the season."
| Oranges, lemons and grapefruit con-
til1ue high, dealers report, leSsening
demands, and, it is said by dealers,
demands for the oranges and grapefruit
probably will not increase to any mate
rial extent until other fruits become
scarce or are of the market.
Several varieties of pears continued
in fairly large supplies, but the bet
ter varieties continued higher than
| usual. Seckels, Bartletts and Sheldons
| are the varieties most in demand and
| which bring high prices. Keifer pears,
| product OF growers In nearby Mary
land and Virginia, used chiefly for
preserving have sold as low as so cents
bushel the past few days, the best
| quality selling around 81.
Heavy supplies of grapes were in EVIL
dence in the commission house district
at the close of the weeks market, in
| GLIDING several varieties of fancy stock
from California and Concords from
Michigan and States in the East. Con-
cords from the Northeast neighborhood
| Of Pennsylvania were reported by deal
ers to have been most attractively
packed for table use, oblong baskets not
being covered with the exception of
the covering Of the cardboard container.