Evening star., 1932-07-06
PRODUCE MARKETS
|NF|RMER TREND
Price Levels Maintained for
Most Lines as Month
Begins.

Price trends of farm products as well
as of other commodities were holding
comparatively well in early July, says
the United States Department of Agri-
culture, Bureau OF Agricultural Eco
Monies, Market News Service. Action
of the live stock, dairy and potato mar
kets was stronger and there were not
many sharp declines In other groups.
Grain feed and hay markets were dull
but not generally weak. Eggs fail to
show any sustained seasonal recovery
yet, but are holding near recent price
levels Potatoes have been selling a
little better. owing to temporary de-
creases in receipts of Southern stock
Potatoes have been moving to market
at a moderate rate in late June and
early July, owing to lighter production,
low prices in producing sections and
more or less interference with digging
on account of weather conditions
Prices continue irregular, showing a re-
cent gain of 10 to Is cents per barrel
in Eastern Shore producing sections,
where CobblerS sell at $2.20 to $225 per
barrel, but Midwestern shipping sections
have been scarcely holding their own.
Old potatoes are still moving at the
rate of nearly so carloads per day.
mostly from Maine, but markets for
storage stock are very weak.
Fresh shipments from Georgia are
only Is to 20 cars per day, scarcely
more than one-sixth as many as were
moving at this time year ago. The
half-bushel baskets of Early Rose
peaches are selling at 81 to SIPS on q
cash track basis in Central Georgia.
decline of 10 to 25 cents compared with
late June CARROTS of pears are late
-. I'D rlNTV atc
averaging only a few cars daily. A
light set of apples is reported in many
important producing States.
Carlot movement Of watermelons
from Florida reached its peak during
late June Georgia shipping districts
are now very active, but melon ship
ments are only about half as heavy
as they were a year ago. Cash track
sales of "a to 80 pound Tom Watsons
have declined in Southern Georgia to
S75 to $3.50 per carload of about
1000 melons, but are holding about
steady at the decline. Tendency is
downward in city markets. the supplies
being near the height of the season.
Butter Trade More Confident.
More confidence in the butter posi-
ton was apparent in early July and
buyers are operating more freely than
for some time past. Prices tended up
ward. Dealers reported rather close
clearance of all grades. Trade is not
brisk, but demand is steady Produc-
ton of butter continues to decrease
from week to week and is lighter than
the corresponding time last season.
The net increase of holdings in cold
storage during June was not much
different from that of June last year.
The Chicago market on butter for Fall
delivery advanced slightly near the
first of July.
Cheese markets are about steady, but
the undertone is nervous and unset
tied, owing probably to effect of recent
low prices in the butter market and
the slow movement of cheese into
trade channels.
The poultry markets in June and
early July were weak and unsettled,
particularly on fowl, quotations for
which were featured by declines OF
l to 2 cents on most sizes. Such
price concessions stimulated considera-
BILE buying. Receipts became lighter
than those of a year ago and the
position is more steady. Many farmers,
it is reported, were again starting to
sell off their hens rather freely until
the marketing movement was checked
by the lower prices. Receipts of other
classes of chickens are not quite so
heavy as those of fowl and the market
is better sustained. Turkeys from Ar
gentina we're offered at 2l to % cents
a pound delivered at New York, but
little interest was shown by the trade.