Milford chronicle., 1932-12-16
Produce Market Notes


The leading wholesale produces
markets show the dull conditions
usually seen during the weeks mid
way between Thanksgiving and
Christmas trading. Carlot ship
ments so far this month are only
1000 per week day. Receipts were
light to moderate the first ten days
of December and trading slow. Price
moyement is irregular, with no gen
eral trend on most lines. Chicago
potato market has lost the greater
part of the Novembe: gain, but
shows firmness at recent levels
Country potato shipping points vary
from weak to firm, but some eastern
markets show further small ad-
vances. Onions generally are hold
ing recent slight upturn3 fairly well
but cabbage has lost part of the rise
because of more shipments and
some new southern competition es-
pecially from South Carolina and
Texas. Dull, weak markets are the
rule for sweet potatoes. Celery is
lower. Supplies of spinach are lib
eral from Texas but decreasing from
southern Virginia. and prices show
a weak trend. Apples are one of the
firm market features and show more
price gains than losses in the East
and South.
Apple Markets Firm
Prices of apples are still some
what irregular but, on the whole,
are being well maintained. Eastern
bushel and barrel packs seem to be
in good position with decreasing
shipments, moderate storage hold
ings, and some varieties compare
lively scarce. Southern apples such
as York and Stayman have made
considerable price gains in Virginia
and West Virginia during the past
few weeks.
Markets in eastern producing sec
tions are about steady and those in
the Pacific Northwest fairly well
sustained. Such varieties as Bald
win, Stayman and Rome sell at 81
to $1.25 per bushel basket on cold
storage stock at country shipping
points. Sales of Greening and King
from common storage are quoted
around 80 cents in western New
York. Barrel sales of apples range
from 81 to SO or more.
Greetings are quoted in eastern
city markets at a steady range of
prices from 75c to !. Connecticut
Baldwins bring 65 to IS cents in
New York, eastern Mcintosh sell at
81 to $1.25 in several markets, and
Grimes and Jonathans S5c' to SIPS.
Spys reached top of $375 per barrel
in New York and Vermont McIn-
tosh, $3.50. Maine Starks and Green
ings sold at 50 per barrel in New
York and Pittsburgh. Exporters say
that the high English tariff rate, to-
gether with declining English cur
rency, has placed an almost pro-
hibitive barrier on export movement
at this time. Many eastern apples
are being shipped to middle western
markets where prices average some
what higher than in eastern cities.
On the whole, the apple market pre-
sents a firm appearance despite the
somewhat unsettled and unsatisfac-
tory condition. Of the. foreign trade. 4
Inc SLOW demand prevailing III ulOSJ
of the great markets is a weak fea-
ture.
Potato Markets Irregular
The potato markets so far this
month have shown stronger action
in the East than in the Middle West.
Chicago and other central western
cities have lost about cents of the
November gain, but are rather firm
at the present level. Some eastern
markets continued to gain through
the first seven days of the month
and the recent gains were firmly
held in some eastern producing sec
tions. Growers in western New York
are receiving about cents less than
recent top price, few of the buyers
paying over % cents per bushel in
bulk at present. Recent price ad-
Vances in Maine have offered wes-
tern New York shippers a larger op-
portunity to sell to New York City