Canadian grocer April-June 1918 . Lower. SOME months ago, with potatoes 1 u!-ing between $ and $ a bag,CANADIAN GROCER made the em-phatic statement that potatoes would bematerially cheaper in the early are selling at the present time at$ and with the market at the presentoverstocked the end of the price declineis not vet. The contention that lower prices were to be expected came at atime when there was a very scant offer-ing in potatoes, owing to the severeweather, and when there was inclined tobe a panicky feeling in the matter, and atendency for merchants to stock mor
Canadian grocer April-June 1918 . Lower. SOME months ago, with potatoes 1 u!-ing between $ and $ a bag,CANADIAN GROCER made the em-phatic statement that potatoes would bematerially cheaper in the early are selling at the present time at$ and with the market at the presentoverstocked the end of the price declineis not vet. The contention that lower prices were to be expected came at atime when there was a very scant offer-ing in potatoes, owing to the severeweather, and when there was inclined tobe a panicky feeling in the matter, and atendency for merchants to stock moreheavily than they required. At present there is a light demand andconsequently lower prices, and as yet the bulk of the movement has not b^en are still large supplies of pota-toes not yet out of the pits in how extensive this supply mayr beno one is in a position to know at themoment, but it is a large item and thegoods are of very good Supplies in SightThere is also a very heavy sunply vet. There is no time better than the present for displaying canned goods. Consider the attractive display of the Hudson Bay Winnipeg. 22 CANADIAN GROCER April 12, 1918. available from New Brunswick. Unfor-tunately the New Brunswick crop thisyear ran to small size, and only a veryfew packers have graded their goods, andthis fact has somewhat militated againsttheir sale. However, the New BrunswickDelaware is well known for its fine quali-ties, and even if a little .small, is still avery satisfactory article. There is some report from chat sectionof frosting in the pits. In some sec-tions the loss from this source is saidto be very heavy, running to the bulkof the production of some farms. It isnot believed, however, that this will bea very large factor. In addition tothis there is the Prince Edward Islandcrop that approximates 2,000,000 bush-els. Some effort was made to move thisduring the winter under Governmentauspices, but even this favorable patron-
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