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Show BRITISH FAVOR I AUDIGAN FOOD Canned Fruits Earn Reputa tions: Popular Among English People j Washington, l. c. jan, i That' American ceAtlfld foods ure popular In I Great Britain la shown by a letter I from Bdgar A. Foley, commissioner of the C 5. department ot agriculture j in London, to K. G. Montgomery Ml ch:irge of the foreign market s.-tv!. . It aaj s in pari i "American canned fruits hav e earned an enviable reputation for Ithemselvel In Great Britain. In all the Igrocery and fruit shops one can Mfl the well-known C P. brands that have long since become staph-a In the lAmerlcan houaehold. j ' So wide has been this distribution 'that in five stores within a radius Of 'two blocks from Cross & Blackwell s j factory I counted four stores carrying .I.. S. canned foods and pickles. I maintain thut it is some iccompllsh-iment iccompllsh-iment to put American pickles and I canned roods op sab' opposite the I Cross & niackell works. American I peaches, pears, apricots and plums I have all had a good sale and vvld. distribution, and to within the last few months have brought top prices. "Large .torea of canned foods were held here In Great Britain at the end !of last season, but as the demand vvas igood. local merchants purchased heavy ; stores for this season at good prices I They forgot to figure on these canteen , stores held mostly in Prance, with the j result that when speculators and otb-Jers otb-Jers bought these canteen stocks and j brought them .to Kngland, there was la large over supply. It is estimated that the present supply is about .(.-000,000 .(.-000,000 cases abovo Die normal supply. sup-ply. "The result has of course been atl I enormous drop in all prices and thi I bankruptcy of many firms for large amounts (H. J. Welt. 1 40,000 pounds). 'There la now no recognised price for j any goods, nnd ah quantities of I peaches, pears, pr apricots can be pur-cased pur-cased for 50 per cent of the imporl-1 imporl-1 ing price. "An exception to this rule, is, hovv-eVflr, hovv-eVflr, the Hawaiian pineapple crop. In spite of adverse conditions, this market mar-ket remains firm, and the product is in demand. "It comes directly in competition With a great deal of colonial pine, but the high quality of the pack gives It I a place of Its own. "We can well be i proud of this pack. The cubes are ven and the slices are likewise even and well cut. The colonials are far j behind In pack Their idea is to cut the pine In any shape to get it Into the can The reault IA a very poor pack and a resultant poor price "There is practically no American jam on the market at the present time The following are some of the Quoted prices on panned fruits, but purchases can be made in the open market for less Peaches, extra standard. 1'4. No. 2!, per doi iZi Standard, :m, No. ity, per doz 2. 1 s Cots, extra standard, 24, No. 2V2. per doz 22s. Standard. 24 No t. ner doz. 21st. Extra standard, 48, No. 1, per doz. Hs Ud. Pears. Lusk Bear Calif., extra Standard Stand-ard A. No 2,i. per doz. 34a 6d Extra Ex-tra standard 48, No. 1, per doz. 20a. I'ots, Calif., unsweetened, liquid gal-lona gal-lona 85S. Calif. Cots. 24. No. 2hi, good soiuid fruit, per doz 16s. Calif. Lemon Cllngs.24. No. 2$, per doz. lfis 6d. Bartlett Pears heavy syrup, 24. No-21-2. per doz '23s 6d. Peaches, Kosedah- I No ji.2, per doz. 25s. Peachea, P.osedale, 24. No. 2, per doz. 20s. "There are also several auctions of canned fruits scheduled for the coming com-ing weeks at which considerable quantities quan-tities will be put on the block The result of tliis slump is seen in the drop in imports of canned fruits, the WQOk Of August 20th showing Kill'.' cases as against 63.090 cases for 1919." oo EVERETT. Welsh Marie Elselh. mother of nine onildren. has entered suit for divorce here against her husband, hus-band, Anton Alseth She alleges extreme ex-treme cstielty, non-support and intemperance, in-temperance, and asks custody of all nine children. The children are aged eighteen, sixteen, fifteen, fovirteen, eleven, ten. nine, seven and five. |