New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-24
AllGHT APPLE CROP IN THIS STATE.

With the apple crop, as with the crop of candl'
dates for Offices, every 0ther year Is Dig ono
according to tradition. ms year. however, hlcn
should DO the heavy bearing one for the apple or
cnards is an exception; the trees having, so 10
speak, thrown over their tlme-hOnored custom oil
being unusually productive In alternate years
Some of the prominent apple dealers IN TINS Guy
with whom TRIBUNE reporter talked recently say
the crop will not equal that OF last year IN TINS
country Others think That the extra good yield
Ia the West will make 1t slightly exceed that OF
last year, though Lot nearly equal To the product
OF two years ago. When the market becomes larry
settled and cold weather sets in, the price OF tuls
KIND of fruit bids far to range from - 10 ~ n
barrel, If II does not exceed that. INC apple crop
III Great Britain is light. and large quantity OF
fruit has already been sent frC III inns port 10 Liver
pool and other cities. IL one week recently Z3VOo
barrels were exported. This number exceeded that
OF the corresponding week last year. j lie foreign
market iluctuates great deal, however, as snip
pers frequently find TO their sorrow. ke-
Gently apples were selling ih Liverpool at 20 and
- shIllings per barrel. and in u few days they
dropped TO 2 and 4 shilllnss. The cost of ship
ping and selling Is about ~ per barrel, when III
one case allowed a good proht and III the other
caused a loss 1t may be mentioned as cusjO ON
that does not prevail in the business IN this city
that the English commission merchants auction of
the apples by samples OF each lot. In former years
Greetings, Baldwins and Newtown plpplns have
formed large share of the varieties exported. TINS
season the English dealers are particularly anxious
tor fine table varities like the Ben DAVIS and
Minesap. Such fruit sells at from Po 90 to 94,
while ordinary kinds can be bought at from ~ 10
So.
Another factor IN addition 10 the export THuc
will operate to keep the price of apples up, and that
is tie demand for drying. Dryers depend more or
less ON curing extra large amount IN the heavy
bearing years To keep mp the supply OF dried
apples the demand ioI which increases each year.
the dryeIs will use q large part Of the crop. he
large houses have already set their evaporatOrs at
work In the fruit sections of the Vest, which have
been unusually favored this year Mr: Heard, "A
leading commission merchant, gave 1t as his opinion
that, 10 take the country through. the apple crop
would be Il fair one. though not near that of 1850.
"a
WAYNE and Niagara" sad he, " and Others In mat
region where they grow great quantities OF appes,
have very light crOl for some reason that do not
know. Along the river, however, the yield Is very
fair, and back OF Albany the irult Is quite plenty
and of good quality. The New-Jersey orchards
have also done well. The failure IN this State ls
partly COMPENSATED by the good crop Ill Kansas,
Missouri and Ohio, where the young orchards are
now producing excellent fruit, the best that comes
TO market this There Is no inner fTult
region III the country than that along the Missouri
River from st. Louis TO ST. Joseph. One result OF
the good crop out west VIII be 10 Stop shipments
from this city 10 Southern cities. The apples can
be sent from st. BOuis 80 much cheaper To New
Orleans Augusta. Savannah, and other Southern
places that with the apples i'll the West To start
with New York dealers will not be able to con-
pete. 1t seems impossible to corner tins market
on produce now. The country IS 50 large thai
after you have made all your calculations some
portion of 1t will pop up with good supply OF
which you never dreamed
Austin KmOall, another merchant. was fCund
by the reporter the freight pier at HE 1901 OF
BaTciay-st. lie experimenting the unload
inE of Z; car of apples The pier contained hun
drcds of barrels, labelled Baldwin, GreenIng' spy,
Spitzenbere Ben Davis, Snow, Swaar and other
tempting names, which were emp aasIzel by The
fluIty Odor which escaped from the packages Mr..
Kimball said the apple crop would be n light one.
The failure i'll this State he ascrbed 10 dry
weather ola trees. worms and over bOss0mlng.
The Western States, lie sand, had good crop
and were sending several car loads daily 10 tins
market. The prospects for the export trade he
saia were very encouraging, owing to the light
crop abroad. The Eastern states bad fan yield,
but he did not anticipate that they would send
very large amount to this market The West
might helD To solve the difficulty OF proper barrels
for appes " 18th the generosity OF big country,
the farmers there have sent their apples IN full
sized barrels equal to flour barrel. The West
ern fruit sells much quicker in this market on
account of the larger packages. while the small
barrels from this State neglected by buyers"