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Y. encase SO y x, , ry Ty a) une Ce a — ae ae (5) \w' ie INS 0 CY SS S) VS D Gi ome aE eo =F =e ri | Lge , a ’ aa | iy, as Y e ERS LY Z f The Produce Market. Apples—Southern stock fetches $1.50@1.75 per 24 bu. box. Home grown harvest apples will soon be in market. The outlook for the Mich- igan crop is good, except Northern Spys and Baldwins, which will be nearly a total failure. Asparagus—$1 per doz. Bananas—$1.50@2.50 per bunch, ac- cording to size and quality. Beans—$1.55 per bu. for picked; $2.25 for kidney. Beets—New, 40c per doz. Butter—Receipts continue to be liberal and the quality is at its very The weather conditions have making butter. Owing to the large consumptive and speculative demand the market has been very active, the receipts clean- ing up each day on arrival. The out- look is for continued good demand and well maintained prices. Local dealers held fancy creamery at 22c in tubs and 22%c in prints. They pay 17%4c for No. 1 dairy and 15%c for packing stock. Butter Beans—$2.50 per box for home grown. Cabbage—New commands $2.75 per crate. Celery—25c per bunch for home grown. Receipts are small in size, but the size will increase from now on. Cherries—$1.25 per crate for sour and $2 per crate for sweet—16 quart crate. Sweets are rotting badly on account of rain and hot weather. hand- best. Cocoanuts—60c per doz. or $4.50 per sack. Cucumbers—75c per doz. for hot house, Currants—$1.35 per crate for red. No receipts of white as yet. Eggs—The receipts continue to be very liberal. Owing to the weather conditions throughout the country, eggs are arriving in more or less heated condition and have to be sold on arrival. The market is steady at slightly higher prices. Very fancy goods are commanding a premium, while medium grades are slow sale. The present conditions are character- istic of the season and are likely to exist for the coming month at least. Quotations for the coming week are not likely to change. Local dealers pay 13%c, loss off, del. Gooseberries—$1.50 per crate. Green Onions—15c per doz. Green Peas—$1.75 per bu. for Tele- phones, Green Peppers—$3 per crate. Honey—15@16c per tb. for white clover and 12c for dark. Lemons—California, $6.50@7 per box; Messinas, $6.25@6.50 per box. New Carrots—35c per doz. Lettuce—85c per bu. for leaf; $1 per bu. for head. Onions—Egyptian, of 112 fbs. Oranges—Washington navels, $3.25 $3.75 per sack @3.75; Mediterranean Sweets, $3@ 3.50; Late Valencias, $3.75@4. Musk Melons—Rockyfords com- mand $2.25 for 54s and $2.50 for 45s. Pieplant—75c per box of about 45 ibs. Pineapples—Cubans fetch $3.25 for all sizes. Floridas command $3 to per crate for all sizes. Pop Corn—90c per bu. for ear, 3144@3%c per tb. for shelled. Potatoes—Old stock, $1 per bu.; new, $5.50 per bbl. Poultry—Local dealers pay 10c for fowls; 6c for old roosters; 10c for old ducks and 13c for young; 12c for tur- keys; broilers, 14@2 tbs., 16@18c. Radishes—12c per doz. Raspberries—$2 per crate for red and $1.75 for black. The crop of both promises to be large. Spinach—$1 per bu. Tomatoes — Home_- grown hot- house, $1 per 8 fb. basket. Veal—Dealers pay 6@10c. —_——- 2. The Grocery Market. Sugar—Without change as_ to price. The demand, however, is in- creasing rapidly and will soon be at its best, as fruits of all kinds are arriving in a fair supply and prices are quite reasonable for the first of the season. The market on raws has been quiet, as refiners are tak- ing supplies sparingly in most cases. Tea—There is nothing especially new in this market. The demand for old green stock continues and prices are very firm. As the supplies are be- coming reduced the retailers are pro- tecting themselves by taking on a little extra stock. The market for new crop teas opened in Japan about a week earlier than last year and up to the present time prices have ruled high and the choicest grades are very scarce. Medium and low grades are also high and show inferior leaf. The liquor seems good but the leaf is coarse and yellow. China teas are higher. The Chinese will not make green teas without color unless spe- cially ordered and 25,000 packages of Gunpowders have been held up in Shanghai, a chemical analysis finding them slightly colored. These teas are not allowed importation to this coun- try. Congous, Formosas, Indias and Ceylons all show up strong and it is prophesied that the day of cheap teas is past, quality rather than cheapness being the prime require- ment. Coffee—Eastern and Brazil prices are fully %c above prices of May 15. The world’s supply is said to be much smaller than a year ago. The demand is only fair from the retail trade, as most dealers continue to take supplies as needed and will not speculate to any extent. The crop reports coming forward state that the crop for 1911-12 will be smaller than a year ago. Some wholesalers ere looking for a still higher market before the new crop supplies arrive. Canned Fruits—Transactions are large, due to the high prices of dried fruits. Retailers are buying freely and old stocks will soon be cleaned up in many varieties. Berries are practically gone, but new pack goods will soon: be ready, strawberries hav- ing commenced to arrive already from Maryland. The pack of berries is said to be very small and many are disappointed, as the outlook was fine some time ago. The market in California has been very strong and opening prices were not announced until this week, one prominent packer naming prices on a part of the line. The prices named are some higher than a year ago. Canned Vegetables — There have been many reports as to the size of the vegetable crop this year, but it is still too early in the season to get anything definite as to the size of the pack. The market on toma- toes is firm, but no change in price has occurred since a week ago. The pea pack in the South has been very small on account of the dry weather, which is also true in the East. Spot supplies are practically cleaned up, some grades not being obtainable at any price. Corn is holding firm and the demand is large, but it may be affected by the arrival of green corn of home grown variety, but that is still quite a distance off. There is i good demand for pumpkin, sweet po- tatoes and squash and prices are un- changed during the week. Dried Fruits—Prunes have _ been sold on the coast on a basis price of 13'%c. This we believe is a record; fully 9c a pound more than new goods are being offered for. Futures are unsettled, owing to the inability of grower and packer to agree on a price. Peaches and apricots are mov- ing out satisfactorily, and while the demand is light the stocks are equal- ly so. Raisins are without interest on the spot, buying only being from hand to mouth. On futures the trade are not very much interested, the present holding price being above the jobbers’ ideas, although apparently as low as conditions warrant. are moving Currants slowly, with the usual light demand at this season. Prices are unchanged. Cheese—Receipts show full grass The weather conditions have been ideal for mak- ing cheese and the market is a lit- tle better than it was last year. There is a very good demand both for con- sumption and speculation, owing to the difference in price from what it was a year ago. and very good flavor. Spices — Prices of show an advance of nearly 3c per pound since the first of the year. There has also been an advance in nutmeg and allspice, but not nearly black pepper as large as on pepper. The demand is a little larger than a short time ago from the consuming trade and it is expected that it will increase from now on during the canning season. Syrups and Molasses—Glucose is unchanged. Compound syrup is dull at ruling prices. Sugar syrup is un- changed and quiet. Molasses is dull and unchanged. Fish--Cod, hake and haddock are unchanged and dull. Domestic sar- dines are unchanged, but packers say they are getting no fish and may advance. Imported sardines are un- changed and quiet. Spot salmon is unchanged and in light demand. Some more packers of Columbia River salmon named prices during the week on the same basis as those who open- ed some weeks ago. The Columbia River pack will likely be short. There has been no change in mackerel dur- ing the week. New Cape Shore fish are being offered, but the price is so high in comparison with Irish fish— Cape Shores are quoted at $16 per barrel in a large way and Irish only $10—that the trade are not interested. The catch of Cape Shores is prov- ing a little better than last year, and the price may be lower. Provisions—Smoked meats higher. Stocks are reported to be fairly heavy and are not likely to ex- perience any change in price in the near future. Pure lard is firm at jc ner pound advance over last week, while compound is in slow sale, ow- are Ye ing to the closeness in price to pure. Owing to the high cost of raw mate- rial prices are not likely to fall in the immediate future. Dried beef is firm at-%ec per pound advance last week. consumptive prices. over Barreled pork is in good demand at unchanged Canned meats show increas- ed demand, with no change in price. —__+~-<+____ The Geo. W. Manning Broom Ma- chine Manufacturing Co. has been in- corporated with an authorized capital stock of $30,000, of which $25,000 has been subscribed and $5,200 paid in in property. Those interested are Geo W. Manning, Curtis fF. Wolford, of this city, and Geo. W Quick, o Chicago; f Galesburg, Kansas. ——_-2.-s—____ The Kent Storage Co. has engaged in business with an authorized capital stock of $110,000, of $55,000 has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Those interested are Theron H John W. Goodspeed and Robert D. Graham. which Goodspeed, The Connor Foundry Co. has en gaged in business to manufacture and sell grey iron and brass castings, with an authorized capital stock of $15,000, of which $8,000 has scribed and paid in in cash. A William Frederick Blake Grocer Co.) and wife have returned from Oberlin, Ohio, where they wit nessed the graduation of their daugh- ter, Dorothy, in the art and litera- ture course. ae Nicholas DeKruyter, who has been engaged in general trade at Rudyard for the past seven years, is spending a week with friends in Grand Rapids and Muskegon. been subh- (Judson MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Detroit Produce Market Page Millions of Eggs Destroyed Every Year. A hen’s egg may be of no more value than a petato, an apple, a piece of meat, bread or other article of food. Yet it might be a benefit to such people and many others to be interested in and to learn more about eggs. : If there be any in our land whose health, pleasure, enjoyment or finan- cial interests are in no way affected by eggs their number must be com- paratively few. Consider a_ single fact in regard to eggs, and think how many people are concerned in many ways. Millions every year. This means a money loss to many people. Such loss falls up- on farmers, poultry men, storekeep- ers, shippers, transportation compan- ies, commission men, grocers and consumers. Non-consumers and the underfed are also losers. This great loss is largely due te lack of system. Farm flocks are no* proper!v housed, fed, yarded or cared for. Many eggs are never found, and many which are found are already spoiled or have begun to deteriorate. other dealers hold eggs in unsuitable rooms and under unfavorable conditions, and more are lost. Many eggs are broken by é¢areless handling all the way from producer to consumer. Much breakage could be prevented by the use of heavier cardboard flats and fillers and stronger egg cases. Deterioration could in a of hens’ eggs are wasted Farmers, storekeepers and great measure be lessened if eggs all reach- ed market within a week from the time of being laid instead of weeks or months, as is now often the case. The genuine poultry man loses least in eggs spoiled or broken, and he gets higher prices than the average farm- er. He would surely fail in business if he were as inattentive and careless about his flock, his eggs and_ his methods of marketing as in the lat- rer. Should Test Them All. The storekeeper loses because he does not insist on testing all eggs before paying for them. He does not so insist because he determines to be as magnanimous as his com- petitors, and so wins and holds farm- ers’ trade. He fears to offend his customers by intimating that any are so careless or dishonest as to oifer He not only los- es what he pays for bad eggs but he pays freight on them to the city and lets the commission man candle them and deduct accordingly. Wheth- er it is the farmer or commission bad eggs for sale. man who cheats him he never knows. He ought to know that he himself is more to blame. The !oss from spoiled eggs in hot weather could be greatly lessened by separating all males from the lay- ing flock as soon as the hatching sea- son is over. Infertile eggs with- stand the severe heat of summer much better than fertile ones. An infertile egg which has been subject- ed to 104 degrees of heat for twenty- one days in an incubator is still a good egg for cooking. Under a set- ting hen it would not be as it would absorb exhalations from her body and probably other odors from her surroundings. The freshness of an egg—that 1s, the number of days since it was laid —