The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-04-27


Rest has come for the weary hand:
He held free tickets for the better land.
AMERICAN APPLES IN EU-
ROPE.
The Fruit Of New York Orchards Green
On Br1tiSh Tables.
New York Herald, 9eth,
In connection with the articles
that have lately appeared in rela-
ton to the shipment Of American
beef, oysters and other edihles, q
brief sketch Of the growth and
present extent of the business of
exporting apples to the British mar.
kets will, no doubt, prove Of inter-
est. For the past twenty-five or
thirty years American apples have
found their way to different parts
of Europe, but In small quantities,
and in many cases merely as pres
ents frem friends in this country.
The only variety that was suppei-
ed to have the necessary keeping
quality was the Newton Pippin,
and as this kind was expensive and
some years also peer in quality, the
shipments were limited in amount.
About 1867, SEINE shipments Of
BaldWins, Spitzenbergs and Green
ings were made, though to q limited
extent and with varying success,
financially speaking. In the fall OF
1873 it was found that the apple
crop in Great Britain was almost q
fetal failure, and as It happened
then, the crop in this State and the
West was unusually large and pri-
ces low. The dealers who ventur-
ed on shipments were well paid
and the quantity shipped that Sea-
son was greater than the combined
shipments of the ten years previous.
From that time up to last fall the
shipments were light, as the Eng
lish crop yielded fairly. Last sea-
son, however, It again failed. At
the same time the crop in this State
and New England was enormous
and in general very good in quality,
with the exception Of the Newton
Pippin variety, which yielded aban-
dant but Indifferent fruit. One
produce house determined to de-
Velop and systematize the business
OF exporting the fruit, and to that
end one of the firm spent the past
winter in England attending to the
reception and sale Of apples from
this port. The other member of
the firm has attended to tha selec-
ton, packing and shipping Of the
fruit in proper order from this side.
The result is most successful, and
what has been heretofore Q hap.hez-
ard speculative series Of ventures
is now put on 9 firm And solid bu-
siness footing.
From the middle Of October to
this time almost every steamer leay-
ing this port for Liverpool or Len.
den has carried shipments varying
from 500 to 5000 barrels. The ex-
tent of the business can Be judged
from the fact that the sales Of
American apples at Liverpool alone
reached $4,000 barrels inthe month
Of December last. The EnRlish
people have received the large
quantities shipped this season very
favorably, and frem Liverpool the
other cities of Manchest ter, Biz
mingham, Hull, Bristol and in fact
have been supplied, and American
apples" have become literally as fe-
miliar there a. Household words"
The greater portion Of the appleS
shipped from this port are grown
in Niagara, Orleans and Wayne
counties, in the western part Of
this State. They come here by way
the New York Central and ErIe
railroads, and are inspected, bran.
ded and ahipped, in m0Ot cases, d.
rect on tho steamer from the rail-
way depot. On the steamers they
are generally carried in the steer
age, and through the fall and win
ter no special care Of them has
been found necessary. Since the
late warm weather, however, ar
rangements have been made 20 ill
the refrigerate Compartments on
seme of the Steamees, and last
Wednesday the first shipment In
this manner wes made on the Al
germ, of the Cunard line, which
carried !, 200 barrels. ne iss5
SHIPMENTS FRoM oTHKR Points.
The Canadian apple crop Of '76 was
also large, and the shipments from
Montreal and Quebec last fall, and
from Portland, Me-, this winter,
were quite heavy ana the quantity
of the fruit coed. Boston was the
outlet for the heavy crop Of near
Iy all the New England States, and
though the fruit was net 30 fine
and sold in the English market ct
lower prices than that from New
York, yet the trade through the
winter Was extensive. Philadel-
phia has also sent Q considerable
quantity, consisting mostly Of New
York State frait stored there in
the fall.
The bulk Of the shipmenss are
made to Liverpool, though London
and Glasgrow receive considerable
fruit direct. The trade, though
Q neW enc, has de-
Yeiopsd wendsrfulIy, and it IL Inn
possible to say what may yet be
done in the way Of supplying the
British Empire with ffuit
In the summer Of 1875 the frm
before alluded 20 shipped 70 Len
don $50 crates Of peaches In 9 re-
and they arrived In goed
order, though sixteen days on the
way. There was also . large guam
tity shipped the same year from
PhiladeIphia, bat they did not carry
well, and the venture resulted in
loss. Since then, however, the
proper management of perishabl0
fruit in refrigerators for leng Yoy-I
ages has received conaiderGblo at
tention from parties interested,
and the time may net b far distant
when Delaware peaches viii be e
well knewn in Londen e they are
during August in Il. 7. city.