Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-02-10
Warren County's Apple Crop.

Ritchey know, just how many apples
they have shipped this season. They
began shipping about the middle of
and have been too busy to
keep count. This firm alone has doubt
less shipped already not less than 90
600 bushels. Many other firms and
individuals have been shipping and
hauling away all the season.
Fruit growers who have not had to
haul too far have realized reasonable
price for their apples, cash in hand.
The railroads and barrel makers have
had good thing without any risk of
loss. Shippers, who have taken all the
risk, have made some money we hope.
Both shippers and producers might
have done better had they not kept the
markets overstocked and thus kept
prices down. Under the circumstances
we have all done the best we could for
others and for ourselves, and must be
satisfied with the results.
We long to see the day come when
our fruit growers shall have become
independent-when each fruit grower
can have an evaporation sufficient to
dry all his fruit if he desires, begin
ming with his earliest and continuing
through all the season. Then he will
be independent. If the price justifes
he can sell green; if not, he can evapo-
rate it and thus take care of it and not
be compelled to force it on the market,
ss many have had to do this season.
Those of our fruit growers who live too
remote from railroads to haul their
green fruit should supply themselves
with an evaporation. They will then
be comparatively independent Well
evaporated fruit has and will always
command good price. Well evapo-
rated apples are now worth Is cents
per pound in the Eastern and Western
cities for export and home demand.
1t is certainly far more profitable and
pleasant to evaporate than to distill
your fruits. Women and children can
run the evaporation, and thus utilize
their labor. The product of the evapo-
rator furnishes a nice, delicious and
healthy food for man, while the pro-
duct of the distillery, when improperly
used, leads to destruction of both body
and soul. Most of fruit growers distill
their fruit for the money they think
they see in it, and not the pleasure Of
the business. You have only to con.
vince them that there is more money
in handling their fruit some other way
and they will stop distilling. 1t is not
for pleasure but for the money they
hope to realize that induces most me1
to engage in distilling. 1t is not oul
purpose now to discuss the question al
to whether distilling is profitable or un
, profitable. Some of our best men
with ample means, have been engaged
in the business for years and hav,
made money; but still it is question
, whether these same men, had they ap
piled the same money, energy and in
dustry to almost any other business
: would not have succeeded as well o
7 better. We have great con6dencein tn
= success of the evaporation. 1t has BEEF
r success wherever tried, even in othe
g parts of our State where the quantit,
and quality of the fruits are far inte
J rior to the mountain counties of Middl
Y and East Tennessee. If it has sue
0 ceeded in the North, East and West
j and South as far as tested, why hes
r tate to introduce it into Warren an
2 adjoining counties, the best fruit grow
ing section of the State?
+ Why is it that Northern green al
e pies bring in the market "a per barre
J. readily while the general average {
!. Tennessee apples will not comman
Z over $3.50 to $500? 1t is not 6
e much on account of the difference i
It the fruit as it grows on the trees as
It the way it is handled and put VI
If Fruit growers in the North select Onl
Y their choice fruit for market, and hal
e die and put up with so much mol
n care than we do that they realize muc
e better prices. Their fruit of poor,
d quality they evaporate and realii
t. nearly as much as the best brings gree
lie The freight and expense of barrelir
to are no more on a barrel of choice, we
r. handled apples than on barrel of i
er ferior, but the profit on the former