Canadian grocer July-December 1908 . bles,such as cucumbers, tomatoes, cauli-flowers. The local canners are making deliver-ies to the retail trade^ of this seasonscanning. Corn, tomatoes and peas havebeen a splendid output, early thisspring the travelers promised retaildealers they could not guarantee oversixty per cent, of the orders owing tothe poor outlook but on their arrivalsthis month almost everv order has been time, and during the time of the fair alarge number of windows in and aboutthe city were dressed with Lipton pro-ducts in accordance with the terms ofthe competition. The. result
Canadian grocer July-December 1908 . bles,such as cucumbers, tomatoes, cauli-flowers. The local canners are making deliver-ies to the retail trade^ of this seasonscanning. Corn, tomatoes and peas havebeen a splendid output, early thisspring the travelers promised retaildealers they could not guarantee oversixty per cent, of the orders owing tothe poor outlook but on their arrivalsthis month almost everv order has been time, and during the time of the fair alarge number of windows in and aboutthe city were dressed with Lipton pro-ducts in accordance with the terms ofthe competition. The. result of the contest as decidedby the judges, is announced herewith. The first prize, $100, goes to W. , Church and Carlton Sts., forthe splendid window illustrated on this ?page. The second prize, $50. went to , 292 Queen St. west. The third prize, $25, was won by awindow submitted by J. M. Cork, 459College St. The fifteen other prizes of $5 eachwere awarded to the following regard to th-ese latter prizes it. First Prize Window in the Recent Lipton Competition, Dressed by W. H. Armitage, Church and Carlcton Streets, Toronto. i Potatoes the late ones especially, area fine crop, far larger than last yeax*.They are of a specially fine quality andare selling on the market here at 75cto $1 a bag. One prominent grocer onSaturday purchased 150 bags at 75c. Eggs are very scarce and have beenfor some time and the outlook is forhigher prices owing to coming coldweather. It is years since eggs were ashigh in price during summer months .sthe past season. No one can explainthe reason. Butter has also been high in price allsummer. This is explained by the greatdrought experienced in this county anddistrict during the summer. Now thatsome of the cheese factories are begin- to the limit. Canning Hastings and Prince Edward, twoof the principal canning counties in On-tario, promised to fill all orders. Theyare all now busy with pumpkins and theyare comin
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