The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-02-08
Markets for Fruit.

It was thought, ten or fifteen years
ago, that land owners had set out as
many apple trees as the markets of the
country would warrant. and even then,
while many of the orchards were young,
an abundant sea on gave such a sur
plus that large quantit es rOtted and
went to waste. Since then a foreign
market has taken in over 1,4O0, 600 bar
reIs Of fresh apples, and the export of
evapOrated fruit is about 5000, 900
pounds, or 3, 600 tons. Canning is con
fined mostly to other fruits. Although
the value of second-rate apples for
feeding domestic animals was we'll
known to some farmers many years ago,
they are still permitted to waste in
large q antilles by tn ose who do not
feed their animals enough succulent
food in late autumn and through win
ter The market for e cd fresh fruit
after the regular demand in tn cOun-
try. and in all the different countries of
Europe, shall have been fully supplied,
may still leave a large remainder, and
here the evaporation will cone in and
C nsume vast quantities. Nearly one
half the year n w passes with nsum-
ers in this untry when they cannot
obtain fresh apples in market, or when
farmers a de ~titute Of them; and to
fill this long vacancy, evapOrated fruit
is destined to furnish vast sup
plies, to say nothing of the extern
sive demand which may be created in
Europe by judicOus Introduction. One
of the most fatal draw backs, h viewer.
to a successful + reign market, is send
ing 20 7 CT defective fruit with the at
tempt ID pass It OF as coed in quality.
A few uns rupulOus shippers are
enough to faint the whole market with
their bad Teputati ns and If it were
. ssibIe, there is no reas why as great
a penalty sh. uld not be imposed upon
such frauds as for passing unit erseit
m new, f.r the harm extends in great
er CT less degree to the VIII lie trade,
which is n It the case with bad money.
We trust that the energy OF the larLe
class Of h rabIe dealers and fruit
growers will find full remedy for this
wrong, and when the greatly increased
markets which the future / S destined
open shall be accessible to us. geth-
er with the home use which may be
made for large surplus crops, in the
manufacture Of Jelly, vinegar, mo
lasses, and for the food Of >
nestle animals, there viii be little
dancer of having too many apples.
The lesson which these facts suggest
will, therefore, be. for those who have
procure the trees. to plant without hest
tatjOn. They must howe er, bear in
mind that merely planting is only the
beginning of orchard work Intelligent
cultivation and proper management IN
successive wears will be absO utely es-
sential; and no more should be set out
than can receive the best care
Before passing entirely from this sub
iect, a lew words may be useful as to
the best way to Sc ure and use surplus
wlndfalls or wormy fruit for feeding
cows, sheep, pigs and horses. IN late
autumn and in win er, a moderate
quantity of which, in connection with
dry fodder. contributes to the health
and thrift of these animals. They should
not be thrown in heaps on the cellar bot
tom, where decaying ones will become
mixed through the whole, and the later
supplies be more rotten than sound.
There are always two conditions with
such apples, those which viii decay
soon, and those which VIII keep weeks
or months, and these are mixed together.
The eve will not distinguish the long
keepers at first, but time only VIII Snow,
if they are placed where they can be
seen. The best arran- ement, therefore,
is to provide a series OF narrow shelves,
extending all around the walls, and al
enough to deposit and take OFT the
fruit These shelves may be of rough
boards, with space enough between one
and the next above to see and elect.
The shelves around the walls should
not be more than a foot and a half wide,
and they may have a foot space between
them. Those IN the interior may be
two and half feet wide, as the attend
ant can pass on both des. The apples
are placed shallow on these shelves. and
the attendant passes along daily with
his basket and takes those VIII CHI show
5 gns of decay After little practice
he does it rapidly. Tbs will save them
from sPo ling by rotting in quantit Is.
By tn management we have kept ap-
pies into June, which were not supposed
10 be long-keeper-; the whole secret
being to remove the decaying ones as
fast as they appeared. and to retain
those which were the best keepers, and
which could not be selected by the eye
ill the trial was made. Country GEN
A5ndn.