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Show Vegetable Prices Show Decline Prices of potatoes, sweetpotatoes, and a large number of truck crops for market declined during the last month under the pressure of heavy marketings from nearby producing areas, the United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics reported .today. .to-day. Although most of the declines were of a seasonal nature, prices generally were below those of July 1936, because of greater production this season. There are a few exceptions, excep-tions, however, such as the prices of lima beans, cantaloupes, carrots, eggplant, onions, and green peas, all of which are higher than a year ago. Prices of cantaloupes, eggplant, egg-plant, lettuce, onions, and peas also are higher than a month ago. Crop prospects in most of the intermediate in-termediate and late producing States are generally fair to very good. Since the acreages planted In these areas were, with few exceptions, excep-tions, increased slightly, the production pro-duction outlook is for larger crops than in 1936. The potato and sweet-potato sweet-potato crops are indicated to be 23 percent and 13 percent, respectively, greater than in 1936. The intermediate inter-mediate crop of snap beans is up 30 percent, cabbage 41 percent, cantaloupes canta-loupes 23 percent, late lettuce 17 percent, intermediate onions 13 percent, per-cent, late peas 13 percent, intermediate inter-mediate tomatoes 6 percent, and ! second-early watermelons 24 percent, per-cent, to name a few of the more important im-portant increases. These larger supplies sup-plies indicate that prices in general during the balance of the season probably will continue somewhat below those of last year. Planted acreages of most truck crops for canning or manufacture are larger than those of last year. Tomatoes, the only exception, show a slight decrease in acreage. Growing Grow-ing conditions have been very favorable fav-orable and a record production is in prospect for nearly all these crops. Indications of yield per acre already point to a record production of snap beans and green peas. n |
