Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-05
PRODUCE MARKETS
. DULL But STEADY
Prices Fairly Well Maintained
on Most FREDERICKSBURG
ments Not Heavy.

1alrly SCeaoy Ine InsI week VI 0eptehl
Der, says the United States Department
of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural
Economics, Market News Service. While
prices were being maintained in gen.
eral way on most products, the ma
iority of changes we're in the down.
ward direction. Carlot shipments are
not especially heavy for the time OF
year and recent weekly volume has
been lighter week by week than for the
same period last season. Local sup
plies and motor truck arrivals compete
Sharply in many markets. Potato and
onion prices weakened a little. Sweet
potatoes sold slowly. Lettuce Is selling
considerably below recent high prices.
Apples continue to meet slow demand
because of low price peaches and mel
ons and other fruit Apple shipments
are not so heavy as last season as yet.
although the crop is larger. Peaches
are still in liberal supply, but daily ship
ments have dropped to about 500 cars
Supplies of grapes and pears are mod
crate owing to light demand and low
prices which have not encouraged active
shipments.
Potato Markets Weak.
Prices of potatoes, while holding fair
" well near the lower levels OF the week
before. still showed a rather weak tone
changes being downward. F1rmness IN
the important Chicago potato market
was encouraging to shippers. Receipts
are moderate in nearly all markets.
Daily total shipments are about one
fourth lighter than a year ago. The
trouble seems to lie in the slow demand
reported in nearly all markets. :,
Haulings were light, demand slow ana
prices fairly steady at most shipping
CT Middle WeSL,
FAILING prices on sacked stock were 30
to e5 cents per 100 pounds and there
was little difference in the price range
in nroducing sections from Long lslano
west to Wisconsin. Slightly lower 1oo-
bing prices prevailed in New YORK, Plus
burgh and a few other large centeIs.
The general range was 50 cents to SLIP
on New jersey cobhlers. Long 1Sla a,'t
stock ranged mostly 81 to $l.40, puC
reached a top of $3.50 in Washington
and Cleveland. Maine cobblers weak
ened slightly in Boston at ST to SLID.
sales of Maine Green Mountains for Oc-
tober delivery declined about l cent In
Chicago, ruling 81 IL per 100 POUNDS.
Sweet potatoes are slow OF sale IN the
large markets, although supplies are
moderate Shipments are increasing
slowly and usually exceed 100 carloads
a day from all sources. The molcateo
crop is about average in quantity TINS
wear Prices have tended downward LOT
some time and dropped sharply in some
markets the first week OF SEPTEMBER.
North Carolina sweets OF the Jersey
type are bringing S1.75 to SOU per
barrel in Eastern markets. Virginia
stock is quoted 81 to So in Eastern mar
kets. Tennessee Nancy Halls dropped
10 cents in some markets ana sofa AZ
80 cents to $1.l5 per busnel.
Onions Fairly Steady.
Not much further change occurred In
the onion markets the first week OF
September. Most sales in producing
sections Of the Connecticut valley ana
in Western New York were from 9O
cents TO 81 per 5O-pound sack. but de-
mand was not active. The large East
ern markets all reported moderate sup
plies and slow demand, with price
changes, if any, slightly downward;
Massachusetts yellow stock sold at go
cents to $l.10 per SO pounds. Inc
range on New York yellow onions
was 81 to Sis Some lots from New
Jersey brought SIPS in New YORK MIG :
western onion markets were generally
unchanged.
The sharp drop in the lettuce mar
ket, compared with the high prices OF
few weeks ago, continued into Septem-
Der and jobbing prices were cut Sharply
in the large Eastern markets. Western
lettuce dropped TO general range
averaging close - 81 per crate ana Ne"
York lettuce of - BIZ Boston type de-
clined to the iobb.g range. OF 10 Genus
to Sl.25 per crate of two-dozen heads.
Shipments have been increasing ana
demand is slow in nearly all markets.
Celery supplies are moderate in most
markets and light in Philadelphia.
Trading is slow to fairly good. Prices
are irregular, but New York quoted 80
cents per crate lower the first week OF
September. The range OF recent looo
bling sales in Eastern markets was $3.50
TO S3.5C. Shippers in the Rochester
district are selling at $3.50, with
steady market.
Peach Shipments Decreasing.
Carlot receipts of peaches show quite
a decrease early in September, with
daily runs of about 500 cars or less,
compared with 1000 during the recent
rush of shipments of the Southern and
Niidwestern crop. The market move
ment from Colorado Is active. Mod
crate shipments are coming from the
Midwest and the Atlantic Coast sec
tions. but the standard Northern late
varieties are not yet moving in guam
tity. Supplies continue heavy at many
markets because of arrivals from pre-
ceding heavy shipments and from local
orchards.
Prices are still low but are advancing
slightly in some markets. The price
range is very wide. anywhere from 25
cents a buShel to 81 or more. Mary
land and Delaware Elbertas sold at IS
to go cents per bushel in various mar
kets early in September. Pennsylvania
and New Jersey Elbertas brought IS
cents to S1.25. Much Of the stock re-
70
appearance. Prices have been too low
most of the season to warrant ship
ment of inferior grades.
Prices of apples continue at low levels.
New York Oldenburgs sell at 40 to As
cents bushel in several Eastern mar
kets and Wealthys at so to so cents.
Sales of Wealthys in Michigan pro-
ducing sections rule 80 cents per buShel.
Apple receipts are moderate in most OF
the Eastern cities and reported light in
Boston, but slow demand Is the rule in
nearly all markets.
Steady Cantaloupe Market.
The moderate carlot supply of canta-
loupes in late August led to steady
range of prices in most markets.
although demand was still reported
sl1w. The bulk of receipts are coming
from Western sources. but numerous
local supplies are offered in Eastern
markets. Maryland and Delaware
Cantalcupes sell at SO to rs cents per
fiat crate in New York, and New Jersey
cantaloupes bring 40 to so cents in
Philadelphia.
The watermelon season is taperirg
down to more moderate supplies, but
new receipts are reported still liberal
a; many of the markets. Demand, as
usual near the end of the season, is
becoming slack. Prices show little or
no general advance from the seasons