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Excerpt from Crops and Markets, Vol. 2: July 19, 1924 Insistent demand featured the outlet for all classes of killing cattle during the week July 7 - 12. Hogs also met with the liveliest trade so far this year. Shippers as well as local slaughterers energetically entered both the cattle and hog trade, suggesting an active movement of the product into distributive channels. Lambs, however, failed to share in the activity, prices dropping to a point about as low as at any time during the current season. Generally higher prices featured the trading in all classes of fresh meats at eastern markets and Chicago. Receipts were moderate and arrived in generally good condition, while demand was well sustained throughout the week. First cars of grapes roiled from California during the week July 7 - 12, and another big grape season was started. Annual ship ments of this product are exceeded only by the volume of apples and potatoes. Movement was somewhat late in beginning, so that the total output to date is only half what it was to the same time a year ago; but shipments will increase rapidly and by August the markets should be fairly well supplied with California grapes. That State has practically no competition until movement starts from the important eastern grape sections in Michigan, New York, and Pennsylvania. The total 1923 output of 18 shipping States was cars, oi which California furnished Shipments from the East were proportionally greater in 1922 than in 1923, and California this season may not come up to its high record of last year. Growing conditions have not been favorable in certain parts of the State, and July 1 estimates indicate a decrease of pounds in California's crop. Increases in the East may only half offset this loss. 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 sta