The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-12-27
VIII Apples be Scarce!

Never In the history of the country
was there so universally large a crop of
apples as this season. They have been
a glut in all fruit districts, and the prices
have been such in our principal markets
that, freights, packages and commissions
being taken out, it has left but little
margin to the producer. In conse-
quence, there is likely to be fruit fam
inc before spring. There is not large
stock in Chicago, and fruit buyers are
already beginning to ship south, and it
is said that the Alton district, the st.
Louis market and South will soon he
large buyers.
Late.keeping apples must always be
supplied from attitudes relatively far
north, say that of Michigan, North Hi.
nois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Southern
Minnesota and this for all time in the
future. To do this properly, fruit grow.
ers, however plenty or cheap the product
may be in the fall, should not therefore
waste, much less allow the fruit to be
destroyed. On the contrary, the great
est care should be used to save and care.
fully sort all sound and fair apples for
it will always occur that in seasons of
extraordinary plenty low prices for per.
ishable commodities will invariably be
followed by one of corresponding search
ty; for in consequence of this plenty
fruit is always allowed to 90 to waste, or
is fed too literally to stock.
We have heretofore given advice in
this direction, and now reiterate: Save
every sound apple; keep them in a cool
place-the barn or out.houses, if no
regular fruithouse is at hand-so late
in the fall as there may be no danger OF
freezing; and thereafter in cool, dry
cellar, where the temperature may be
just above the freezing point.
When they were picked they should
have been sorted into three grades. II
this wa not done, it should be attended
to at once, handling the fruit with the
greatest care never allowing it to lie in
heaps, but placing it Immediately in
barrels at packing time. When finally
headed up for transportation, the heads
of the barrels should be pressed down
upon and into the top layer of apples
so as to preclude all danger Of one apple
being moved on another during the
rough handling they will undergo in
transportation. If this is attended tc
and the fruit carefully sorted, so tina
the purchaser knows Just what he il
paying for, the seller may be assured o
not only getting the highest marke
price, but even this bountiful season
remunerative one, and this before Feb
ruary.
If we always remember that it cost
no more to transport car load of apple
worth four or five dollars per barrel
given distance than it does those wortl
two dollars, our large cities would ceas
TO be glutted with inferior fruit tina
hardly pays the cost of transportation
The buyer would be satisfied, and fruit
growers would have less cause to CON
PLAIN of unsatisfactory returns fror
commission merchants. 1t is with fru
Ms with any other commodity, whethe
it be rejected and emo grade grair
bury and dirty wool, inferior vegetable
ard garden fruits, or illsorted an
, ,cabby apples. To bring large profit
to the producer, somebody must b
cheated; but frst-class commodities,
whatever kind, usually bring remune
alive returns - Western R,ual.
ONE of the gentlemen who are no
engaged in instructing the public no
; to prevent great conhagrations maintain
that =" if blanket had been stepped i
3 water and hung up in front of the no
e test fire In Boston or Chicago, and Ike,