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Excerpt from Vegetable Situation, Vol. 145: July 1962 Supplies of fresh vegetables will be at or near their seasonal peak during the next A to 6 weeks, as local production adds to marketings from commercial areas. Commercial tonnage of summer vegetables is expected to be close to that of last summer. Among the more important items, smaller production is indicated for summer celery, lettuce, spinach, and early summer tomatoes. But larger creps are in prospect for summer cabbage, cucumbers, snap beans, and early summer peppers. Moderately more cantaloups and watermelons also are in prospect. Overall supplies of both canned and frozen vegetables in the 1962 - 63 season are likely to be the same to slightly larger than those of last season. Among the various products, all major items are expected to be in adequate to heavy supply. Both packer and retail prices of canned and frozen vegetables probably will average near those of last season. Indicated supplies of potatoes this summer are lighter than the heavy supplies of a year earlier, and both grower and retail prices are likely to average above the low levels of last summer. Prospective early summer production is down almost a fifth, and the more important late summer cr0p is down moderately. Growers of fall crop potatoes also report 5 percent less acreage than last year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such hist