Evening star., 1932-10-06
AUTUMNAL FRUITS
REACHING MARKETS
Vegetable Shipments Are
Also Displaying Their Regu-
lar Seasonal Increase.
BY BRADLEY w. TRENT.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, october 6.-The usual
Autumnal movement of fruits and
vegetables to this and other important
consuming centers is well under way,
If the sidewalks and signs today along
the West Side grocery and canning
district be any criterion.
Apricots, prunes, raisins. wine grapes.
California Ealnuts pecans, preserving
and picking spices. PICKLES and pep
perS were in evidence. while talk OF
arriving shipments of artichckes, cram
berries, dates, rice and mackerel en-
phasized the sort of cargocs that could
be expected within the next few days
or weeks.
New Vegetables.
From El Paso Valley, Tex. the Sec
ond commercial crop of American
artichokes started markctWard. accord
ing to Winifred BeckWith, secretary to
A. A. De Bole. whom the United States
Department of Agriculture refers to as
"the Jerusalem artichoke king" Mr..
De Bole, who is supervising the ship
ments, wired that the present crop will
break all records in tonnage per acre.
THE housewife" Mss Beckwith said,
pointing to this non-starch, thin
skinned tuber, which range in weight
from few ounces to five pounds, will
1ldNC w bV Stld1olSSt w 10 SoAAS. ASat,
after all, to how many new fruits and
vegetables has she not been educated
in the past few years."
This vegetable. whose stalks grow
IA feet high and whose slightly yell
lowish meat has the combined flavor
of the Brazil nut, coconut and celery,
is not related botanically to the green
leafed. globular artichoke.
"Champlain, in his memoirs" Miss
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nomer, mentioned the plant as food
like an artichoke. To account for
Jerusalem in connection with this
tuber is more difficult but many think
1t is a corruption of the Italian
'girasole,' which means sunflower No
matter how it came 10 be miSnamed,
for 800 years Europe paid more at
tention to it than did America, until
in 1916 the late Joseph c. Sibley of
Franklin, Pa, reintroduced it from
France, after discovering that he, a
diabetic. could eat this vegetable with
out unpleasant results"
A. A. De Bole, whose cannery at Tor
milo, Tex, now is making sour and
sweet pickles out Of this artichoke, be-
came interested in the vegetable some
years ago. He works somewhat along
the lines of the late Luther Burbank,
but unlike the latter ne not only sells
seeds and plants, but sets up labora-
tories to find new uses for by-products.
He has increased the uses for the
American artichoke from 20 a year or
% ago or more than 100 at present.
And speaking of new uses of foods,
c. NJ Chester. president of General
Foods Corporation, pointed out today
that 10 years ago there were 300 large
commercial laboratories In the United
States To-day" he saio, there are
$500. Here are developed new products,
new ideas, new, markets. The result
should be a whole series OF new in
dustries, creating more wealth and en-
ployment."
New Pecan Prices.
Several large sellers today named new
pecan prices Rasin shipments from
California, for both domestic and export
destinations. are running at their high
est rate in Is years. From the National
Pickle Packers Association today came
q report of a shortage of 100000
bushels. Rice harvesting in Louisiana
and Texas has been delayed, as Arkan-
sas rice growers talk OF a strike and
plan to withhold the grain from market.
Frune prices are steadying. as the
California crop promises to be below
previous estimates. Pacaaged figs from
the Coast are moving satisfactorily.
Copyright, 1922