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Commodity. │ │ Same │Previous│ This │ Last │
│ Week │ week │ week │ season │ season │ Total
│ ending │ last │ this │to July │to July │ last
│July 29.│season. │season. │ 29. │ 29. │season.
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Apples │ 521│ 542│ 639│ 3,091│ 1,176│ 88,544
Cabbage │ 151│ 161│ 126│ 17,208│ 12,843│ 31,222
Cantaloupes │ 1,801│ 1,704│ 1,830│ 19,268│ 16,868│ 25,572
Celery │ 55│ 35│ 65│ 5,030│ 4,344│ 11,642
Grapes │ 108│ 167│ 62│ 207│ 337│ 37,203
Lettuce │ 302│ 334│ 329│ 16,926│ 14,385│ 18,300
Onion │ 323│ 423│ 388│ 7,597│ 6,669│ 20,784
Peaches │ 2,101│ 1,600│ 1,771│ 10,813│ 14,353│ 27,222
Pears │ 648│ 612│ 455│ 1,216│ 1,367│ 12,823
Potatoes: │ │ │ │ │ │
Sweet │ 139│ 135│ 84│ 347│ 165│ 19,266
White │ 3,873│ 3,604│ 4,147│ 46,672│ 39,081│ 238,138
Tomatoes │ 230│ 339│ 498│ 17,846│ 11,883│ 17,204
Vegetables, mixed│ 626│ 427│ 663│ 11,013│ 9,346│ 15,566
Watermelons │ 3,653│ 5,377│ 3,184│ 34,596│ 31,106│ 46,463
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Total │ 14,531│ 15,460│ 14,241│ 191,830│ 163,923│ 609,949
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Chicago an Important Market for Raspberries and Small Fruits.
Large supplies of raspberries and loganberries have recently been
arriving on the Chicago market from the Pacific Northwest. Special train
service has been provided by one of the leading railroads, so that these
highly perishable fruits come through in record time and in good
condition.
According to reports of a Chicago representative of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture, prices of Northwestern red raspberries have ranged from
$3 per 24‒pt. crate to as high as $4.50 per crate for the best stock at
the beginning of the season. The average price has been around $3.50‒$4
for good stock, with a fairly steady market.
At this season of the year in Chicago most of the small fruit
competition is from Michigan. Heavy supplies of Michigan blackberries,
red raspberries, black raspberries, and blueberries have been coming in
during July. There has also been a liberal supply of red currants and
gooseberries. The following table shows the jobbing prices of these
fruits in comparison with berries from the Northwest and from New York:
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Source and kind of fruit. │Size of crate. │ Price.
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Northwest red raspberries │24‒pint │ $3.50‒4.00
S. Michigan red raspberries │24‒pint │ 2.50‒3.50
N. Michigan red raspberries │24‒pint │ 3.00‒3.75
Michigan black raspberries │24‒pint │ 1.50‒2.25
Michigan black raspberries │16‒quart │ 2.00‒2.50
Michigan blackberries │16‒quart │ 1.75‒2.50
Michigan gooseberries │16‒quart │ 2.00‒2.50
Michigan currants (large) │16‒quart │ 2.75‒3.25
Michigan currants (small) │16‒quart │ 2.00‒2.50
Michigan blueberries │16‒quart │ 3.00‒4.50
New York currants (red) │32‒quart │ 4.00‒6.00
New York red raspberries │48‒pint │ 3.25
Michigan sweet cherries │16‒quart │ 1.00‒3.50
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Black raspberries from Michigan have not sold as high as reds this
season, although in many seasons they sell at the same levels. Currants
and gooseberries have varied widely in price. Blueberries have been in
good demand.
New York has shipped a large volume of red currants to Chicago in 32‒qt.
crates and these have ranged $4‒$6, depending on the quality, condition,
and the market. One car of New York State Columbia red raspberries,
shipped from Clyde, Wayne County, has arrived to date and sold at $3.25
per 48‒pt. crate. This stock was of fine quality but in rather poor
condition.
Practically all of the sour cherry supply comes from Michigan, packed in
16‒qt. crates and, after the first few Early Richmonds, consists
principally of Montmorency and a few English Morello. Wisconsin also
ships a few cars of Montmorency in the same package. Odd lots of sweet
cherries in 16‒qt. boxes come from Michigan. These for the most part
vary widely in quality and condition and are not graded well enough or
handled carefully enough to compete with the well-packed sweet cherries,
principally Royal Annes and Bings, from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and
Utah. Most of them are Black Tartarians, Windsors, Bings, and Napoleons
(same cherry as the western Royal Anne). The price has had the
exceedingly wide range of $1‒$3.50 per 16‒qt. crate.
Report on Cabbage and Onions in New York.
Reports from the field service of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
for the date of July 25 contain the following information concerning
commercial cabbage and onions in New York:
_Cabbage._—The acreage planted to cabbage in the eastern portion of the
cabbage belt in Cortland, Chenango, Madison, and eastern Onondaga
Counties and in some sections of the western counties has increased
greatly over 1921, but for the State as a whole the acreage is probably
not far from average. The percentage of the acreage in late cabbage is
larger than usual. Rain has delayed planting and damaged cabbage on low
ground but has prevented aphis damage, so that the average condition of
the crop is good throughout the State.
New York ranks first among the States in production of commercial
cabbage and Ontario County first among the counties of the State. This
county will begin to ship cabbage by Aug. 15, but most of the crop is
late.
_Onions._—Harvesting of early onions in Orange County began July 15, but
the main crop will move between Aug. 10 and Sept. 1. Best yields may
reach 400 to 500 bus. per acre but rains have reduced the probable
average for the county to 275 bus. and perhaps to 250 bus.
Growers and Dealers Expect Good Potato Crop in New Jersey.
Growers and dealers in the northern and southern potato sections of New
Jersey are optimistic over the prospects of this season’s potato crop,
according to a report from the Philadelphia representative of the market
news service conducted by the U. S. Department of Agriculture.
The weather has been almost ideal from the growing standpoint and
prospects are for the best crop in respect to both quality and quantity
that New Jersey has had in several years. This is true of all varieties,
but especially of the Irish Cobblers and the Giants. Thus far the crop
has been yielding 60‒80 bbls. per acre, mostly around 70 bbls., which is
a good yield for so early in the season.
Although some fields, especially in north Jersey (Burlington, Mercer,
and Monmouth Counties), show signs of late blight, this disease does not
appear nearly so prevalent as during the past few years. In south Jersey
(Salem and Cumberland Counties) very little of this disease has
appeared.
The potato deal in all sections of the State opened generally about July
17. Contrary to custom, it looked as if the northern district would ship
early potatoes more freely than the southern section. Very little of the
stock seems to have been contracted.
There probably will be keen competition this season, especially in north
Jersey, because three or four growers’ exchanges besides several large
individual dealers are interested in the deal. In the southern district
there is only the one exchange, but there are several large shippers.
Increasing quantities of potatoes are moving by truck from producing
sections to New York City, Jersey City, Newark, and especially to the
seashore cities. Many trucks are also being used for shipping to
Pennsylvania cities, and the total truck movement probably will affect
the season’s carlot shipments by several hundred cars. To July 29 about
2,060 cars of potatoes had been reported shipped from New Jersey,
compared with 1,850 cars to the same date last year. Total shipments
last season were almost 10,500 cars.
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=The close-of-the-season movement= of Maine potatoes was twice as heavy
as in June, 1921. Total shipments from that State have broken all
records, amounting to approximately 40,000 carloads, or one-fifth of the
entire late potato shipments of the United States.
_Grain_
WHEAT CONTINUED DOWNWARD
TREND; CORN FAIRLY STEADY Receipts of Wheat Increased—Heavy Export Sales
Continued—Oats Prices Dropped Off.
The steady decline which has prevailed in the wheat market for some time
continued during the week ending July 29 when September wheat at Chicago
closed at $1.08, 1⅜¢ lower than at the close of the previous week. The
heaviest decline occurred on Monday, when September wheat closed at
$1.07⅜. The market rallied somewhat toward the close of the week but did
not regain the loss sustained during the early part of the week.
The principal bearish factors were the heavy primary receipts, estimated
at 15,902,000 bus., which caused large hedging sales; lower foreign
markets; and the weakness in foreign exchange. Opposed to these
influences were the bullish reports of heavy export sales and the
reports that more wheat would be needed by foreign buyers than had been
generally anticipated.