Milford chronicle., 1931-08-21
Produce Market Notes

Vancing in some markets. General
jobbing range of New Jersey yellow
stock is 80 cents to $1.10 per so
pound sack. Eastern Shore onions
brought IS 5to 80 cents in Philadel-
phia and Pittsburgh. Massachusetts
set onions sold at rs to S5 cents.
Lettuce markets, too, have quoted
prices this month rather pleasing to
producers. Receipts of good stock
are light to moderate. Best lots OF
New York Big Boston type lettuce
reached tops of 1925 in New York,
Baltimore, Washington and Pitts
burgh near the middle of the month.
General range was $1.75 to 1925 per
2-dozen crate. Steady to firm mar
kets were reported in western let
tuce shipping sections.
CantalOupe Markets Steady
Nearly steady markets prevailed
for eastern cantaloupes near the
middle of the month. Demand was
only fairly good ON account of lib
eral supplies of fruits. JObbing
range in half a dozen leading mar
kets was 60 cents to $1.50 per
standard crate. Prices declined a
little at Maryland shipping points,
with pink meats quoted at so cents
to 81. The cantaloupe season around
Salisbury is about finished and ship
ments will be light after the middle
of the month. The crop in the Hur-
lock district is reported lighter than
last season and quality only fair.
Shipments from the Seaford Della
ware section probably will be light
for the rest of the season. Move
ment by truck and carlot has been
heavier than last year. Movement
by motor truck from the Eastern
Shore reaches total of well above
100000 crates, or nearly twice the
shipments to same date last season.
Quality has not been so good as it
was last season and prices have
been lower, but growers have abb
tanned better yields, although prob
ably not heavy enough to offset the
lower market returns. Rains the
second week of August helped the
cantalOupe crop somewhat and were
of decided benefit to the sweet po-
tatoes.
Watermelons are in moderate to
heavy supply in northern markets
and demand is limited because of
heavy supplies of fruits. Prices
have been extremely low in produc
ing sections and also in some north
ern markets. Sales on uit basis for
medium to heavy stock range from
Is to 40 cents in various eastern
cities.
Fruit Supply Increasing
The season of native fruits is eX-
tending northward and carlots are
coming from a wide range of pro-
ducing territory. Prices are fairly
we'll maintained, but general ten
dency has been downward since the
first of the month. Peach shipments
in carlots are about 25 per cent
lighter than at the height of the
southern shipping season. North
Carolina and Georgia still supply
more than one-third of the daily
output. Tennessee is shipping heav-
lily. Maryland and Kentucky have
a few carlOts. Liberal to
heavy supplies are reported in near
ly all markets, and a rather weak
price tone, with sales at 81 to $1.5O
per carrier. Prices at shipping
points lost part of the previous re-
covery from the seasons lowest
points.
Apple growers also find prices too
low for profitable shipment of any
but the best fruit. Quotations as low
as 25 cents a bushel were returned
from some of the large markets, and
more general range of prices on
good fruit is rs cents to 81. The
report for August shows that the
dozen states of the Atlantic Coast
apple region are likely to produce
about one-third more apples for
market this season and about one
fourth more than the 5-year aver
age. The great increase is in four
states of the southern part of this
region-Delaware Maryland, Vir-
ginia and West Virginia-which
would have 7,412,OO0 barrels, COM
mercial crop, compared with $780,
900 last season. Crop prospects
were even better in August than for
the month before. The middle states
Of this region-New York, New Jer-
5ey and Pennsylvania-have a crop
slightly less than last season but a
little above the average. The prin-
cipal decrease is in the New Eng
land states, which show a CONNER
cial crop about one-third below that
Of last season. Probably some of
The plentiful southern crop will
seek a market in northeastern con-
suming centers.