Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-18
WHOLE NO. 1868.

be strong competitor The Tokay and
emperor, II every way perfect, will sell the
best then the white; the black will do
well enough If large and fine, and that
must be looked to. The pear market is
liable TO huctuations and great care should
be used not to let them get too ripe; they
had better be too green than too ripe lust
right is the best. Peaches after a time get
cheap here. Flat boxes, something like
those used ut Newcastle, are considered the
best for stone fruit.
LAST YEARS PRIcE-rRosPEcrs THIS YEAR.
We give you list of prices as given us
by party, taken from the books of last
years sales Peaches, in 20-ib boxes. So so
10 So plums. in 20-lb boxes, So 25 to 81 10;
apricots, in 20-tb boxes, S2 TO 81 so grapes,
in 40-it boxes. 50 90 TO 81; pears, in fob
boxes IS to s..
we do not expect fruit will rule as high
this year as 1t has previously one reason
IS there IS general complaint of hard
times, and prices will have to rule lower in
order that fruit may enter into general con-
sumption, and certainly much lower prices
would pay producers more than they get in
California.
If growers will only make an extra eff
fort, and put up their fruit so that it will
come through in good order il can be dis
tributed with such rapid dispatch from
here to all parts of the country that there
can be an immense amount sold mt re-
muneratiye prices. Some over-ripe or
bruised fruit scattered through the box
will rot all, and some poor ones, put in TO
fill up, before turning over the box when
packing, will damage the sale more than
to pay for five times the amount of good
fruit in the orchard To ship TO profit, one
must see that everything is Just right The
people here will pay good prices, but they
have to sell the bottom as well as the top,
and they will stand no China-packing,
when ali the good ones are used to make
the top look nice, but looks here. like all
markets. cut a big figure.
There is much prejudice existing against
the canned goods, owing TO SO much infer
ior fruit be put ON the market We think
it would be good time for parties under
standing the business to put up some of
their choice fruits in glass; such fruit as
would show to good advantage through
the glass.
HOW TO PICK. PACK AND SHIP FRUIT.
Another letter from the same firm, writ
ten on the 9th inst, has the following
statements and suggestions concerning
picking, packing and the shipment of
fruit;
We note the statement from certain par
ties that shipments by express in small
quantities are much more preferable.
Now our experience has been exactly the
reverse, considering the condition of all the
fruits received this season so far, by ex-
press; still it is no mystery why that plan
of shipping should be advocated, for the
whole policy Of handling California fruit
in this market previous to this season, has
n. a., h,.,Y LOT. haI
them at high prices, and not encourage
growers to ship direct. The greater pro-
portion of the fruit handled here in past
seasons has been bought III California and
brought here on 81 eculation, and not with
a view of creating a large demand for Cali
fornia fruit,
Then by declaring that carload ship
mentS would not pay, and with the high
rates and heavy risks on express shipments,
growers would prefer to sell there at any
price rather tLan chance shipment them
selves. Now you we'll know California
herself cannot begin to consume all that is
raised, even with the aid of the Gamers;
and that in order to realize satisfactory
prices for what is used in California there
must be a great deal shipped out.
The successful arrival of the Haywards
car, as the first solid car of cherries ever
shipped, shows that they can be brought in
order, and with a little care rs 10 picking,
there is no reason why two or three cars q
week could not be sold TO good advantage.
When the first cherries came by express
and in bad order, the buyers were afraid to
touch them but when the first car came
aud they got some good ones, it opened
their eyes, and they are now running after
us wanting more, and full car of good
ones would now go off readily.
Pick of morning when cool pack in
shallow boxes with cleats on the end un-
derneath the top, then tack a sheet OF
coarse brown paper on the cleats, leaving q
space of about half an inch between the
cherries and paper; load in cars same as
the Haywards one. and you can send them
through as safely as to San Francisco.
A little care i'll picking and packing will
enable any neighborhood to ship their fruit
by carloads, and it is a big difference be-
tween 3 cents per pound and 10 cents per
pound freight. But with the quantity
which can be shipped proiitably at 3 cents
there is not much room for monopoly,
hence the cry, Small shipments by ex-
press"
Try and keep mixed cars coming now as
fast as possible, for we can use from 800 to
500 boxes of cherries every day but unless
the express companies change their manner
Of handling fruit coming East, we don't
want any by express,