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Countrywide Produce Situation 
markets continue irregular and ham¬ 
pered BY BAD CONDITIONS OF 
WEATHER AND TRAFFIC. 
Some lines of fruits and vegetables have 
advanced slightly, but most of them have 
declined under various prevailing market 
influences. Possibly nothing but car 
shortage prevented quite a tumble of 
prices in February. Holders of old cab¬ 
bage, potatoes, apples and onions appear 
generally willing enough to sell at near 
the recent figures, but the storms and 
broken roads, together with lack of cars, 
kept the stuff from moving. Enough 
produce came along to weaken prices a 
little, except for apples, the best grades 
of which advanced in New York, Boston 
and some other markets. 
APPLE VALUES FIRM. 
New York Baldwins bring $7.50 to $8 
for best lots at shipping point and reached 
$9 per barrel in a few city markets. 
Western apple markets are lower than 
Eastern. Inferior grades and varieties 
range down to $4 per barrel. Greenings 
bring more than Baldwins, and have done 
so in most recent seasons. Strictly fancy 
Greenings that are “green” as well as 
bright and smooth are scarce, and bring 
fully $1 more than best Baldwins. I or- 
merly the Greening was sold at lower 
prices than the Baldwin. Possibly there 
is a future for a few new orchards of 
Greenings in localities where this old 
standard variety has a hold. Well-grown 
fruit from young trees would no doubt 
be in great demand. The same may soon 
be true of the Roxbury Russet, which has 
been forced into the background by com¬ 
petition of juicier and more handsome 
kinds held iii cold storage, but the large, 
bright, nearly smooth Russet from young 
trees, thoroughly sprayed, is hardly to be 
compared with the old style Russet, and 
such fruit finds eager buyers late in the 
season. At present the average No. 
Russet sells at shipping points for about 
$6.50. compared with $7.50 for Baldwins 
and $5.50 for Ben Davis of correspond¬ 
ing grades. . 
There is no reason to expect muon 
change in the apple situation. The nat¬ 
ural tendency to advance toward the end 
of the season seems to have been counter¬ 
acted by several unfavorable conditions. 
Prices are about 50c per barrel lower 
than a year ago in most, markets. At 
that time the export trade was moving, 
and anv sort of an apple was eagerly 
snapped up. This year the home trade 
control* the market, but Eastern apples 
are in lighter supply. There is plenty of 
Western fruit, but much of it was bought 
at high prices early in the season and 
owners are holdiug it firmly. 1 hose 
Western holdings are the weak *pot in 
the market, and prices may go off for a 
while when open shipping weather ar¬ 
rives For that reason many Eastern 
apple holders are taking no chances, but 
cleaifing up as fast a* the demand and 
the car supply will permit. 
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FURTHER RECOVERY OF POTATOES. 
Country markets have shown a slight 
upward trend the past week. The aver¬ 
age price at shipping points is back again 
around $4 per 100 lbs. for No.. 1 sacked 
stock. Maine potatoes continue the 
cheapest in the country at 2.) to 50c below 
Minnesota and other Northern potatoes. 
This difference is owing to the short crop 
in the Far West, but the condition hints 
that the East, because of its more uniform 
climate and moisture supply, may well 
become the land of cheap food, at least 
occasionally. The former advantages of 
the West are disappearing with the rise 
in land values and in freight charges. 
Florida potato planting reached 22,000 
acres, and may give the market quite a 
jolt when the crop begins to come along 
in April and May. Yield promises well 
and the area is fully 25 per cent greater 
than a year ago. Carrots are about $1 
cheaper than potatoes and bring around 
$9.25 per 100 lbs. at New York State 
shipping points, with demand improving. 
COMPETITION IN CABBAGE. 
Eastern cabbage prices hold fairly well 
considering the avalanche of Florida. Cal¬ 
ifornia and Texas shipments selling not 
much higher than old cabbage. In fact, 
the Southern growers get less than North¬ 
ern shippers of old stock at this season, 
and the price is not far apart in Northern 
markets. Hence the demand for old cab¬ 
bage is narrowed to the section of the 
trade that prefers old stock. Demand is 
further checked by arrival of excellent 
old cabbage from Northern Europe, which 
is offered to importers at prices showing 
considerable profit. Old cabbage brings 
about $70 per ton bulk in producing sec¬ 
tions. This price is quite a reduction 
from the high point in January, but still 
is nearly three times the price in early 
March last year. 
SLOW DISPOSAL OF ONIONS. 
Competition with the old onion crop at 
present is chiefly from Spain. There will 
be quite a supnly from Egypt also for a 
while this Spring, just about filling the 
gap between Spanish onions and the 
Texas crop. Meanwhile, the old Northern 
crop is dribbling to market at draggy 
prices, ranging $5.25 to $6.25 per 1(H) 
lbs., wholesale, in leading city markets. 
This is not a bad price when compared 
with the time when $1 per bag was con¬ 
sidered a fairly good price for onions. 
Texas growers are reported getting close 
to $2 per crate for advanced sales, these 
crates holding less than a bushel. G. B. F. 
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