Milford chronicle., 1932-09-30
Produce Market Notes

94 per ION IN Ine hOC0eSl6f ulSITlCl
and some kraut factories bought a
low as 50 per ton. The early part o
the Danish-type crop is being har
vested, and dealers carlot price
hold mostly around SO per ton.
Small shipments of carrots arr
reported from western New York
averaging less than half a dozeI
carlots a day. Shipping point prices
are mostly around so cents per 10C
pounds ON sacked rough stock. The
output has been less than half thai
of corresponding time last year, ow'
ing to the slow demand. New York
carrots are quoted at slightly deelin-
ing prices the third week of Sep
tember, ranging 35 to 60 cents pei
bushel in New York and Philadel-
phia. Pennsylvania and New Jersey
carrots were quoted at S5 to AZ
cents.
! Quiet markets are reported for
celery at New York country ship
ping points. Carlot transactions for
/ the best lots, crate ?washed, fluctu-
ate between so and rs cents per
two-third crate. Consignments are
making up a large share of the ship
ments, which, so far this season, are
! somewhat lighter than they were a
year ago. Movement into cold stor-
! age will not be important until near
the middle of October, when har-
vesting of the late varieties is in
full swing. So far the marketing of
the celery crop is regarded locally
as improbable to all concerned.
Apple Supplies Moderate
Shipments of apples continued
only about two-thirds the rate of
year ago. Even the receipts from the
Northwest are moderate, owing
probably to low prices there rather
than to any lack of supplies avail
able. Nearly steady conditions pre-
vail in eastern producing sections,
and sales at country shipping points
are mostly between 65 and IS cents
per bushel in large lots. Shipments
from western New York comprise
mostly the Wealthy, Alexander,
Twenty Ounce and Maiden Blush. A
few sales of Rhode Island Green
ings have been reported around 65
cents per bushel for No. l stock.
Fall varieties range 65 to rs cents.
Prices in city markets show
slightly downward trend the third
week of September, with jobbing
sales in eastern markets at so to 85
cents per bushel for the Wealthy, rs
to 80 for Maiden Blush, and rs to
$1.25 for Mcintosh. Midwestern job
bing quotations are higher than
eastern. New York Greetings
brought 80 cents to 81 at Chicago.
Virginia Jonathans were quoted at
$1.25 at Detroit, compared with
mostly rs cents to 81 in eastern
cities. Vermont and New Hampshire
Mcintosh sold at So to $3.50 a bar
rel in New York. Fairly steady con-
ditions prevailed in the Shenandoah
Valley apple section, where Jona-
thans sold at SIS cents to 81 per
bushel the third week of September,
and Grimes at 65 to rs cents.
Pears are in moderate supply
and demand in nearly all markets
reporting since the middle of the
month. New York and Michigan
Bartletts are both quoted at 81 to
$1,25 per bushel in Chicago. Sales
in western New York producing sec
tions are now mostly out of cold
on this variety. Anticipating
somewhat higher prices, many oper- /
ators refuse to ship at anything un-
der 81 for No. 1 Bartletts. Shipments !
have been three times as heavy from |
that section as in 1881, and the ton
mage moving by motor truck has
been heavy. Some of the trucks have
carried more than a carload, and
load up to 900 or 700
bushels with the aid of a trailer.
Much of the present trucking ac-
-ivity is in peach shipping districts.
According to some estimates, fully /
as much of the peach crop his been
shipped by truck as by rail, but
rail shipments are several
hundred cars larger than for the
same time last season. The fruit has
been moving into storage actively
since the middle of the month. Sales
1t shipping points are mostly go to
IS cents bushel for Elbertas. Many
1f the daily shipments are on con-
,ignment. Most of the eastern mar
let supply this month is from New
York producing sections. Prices
nave inclined downward slightly in
'ecent weeks. Recent jobbing range
vas rs cents to $1.25 in the large
eastern cities for Elbertas. A few
'hoice lots of Hales still brought So
" more. st. Louis quoted sales of
Pennsylvania Hales at $2.75. Some
OTIS of Elbertas from Pennsylvania
Ind New Jersey sold at high as $1.50
n a few markets. Connecticut FL
,ertas declined to a range of rs
ents to 81 in New York.