Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-09-05
Fruit Prices and Markets.

which are made by those engaged in
raising and evaporating fruit, we
condense the following statements
from the circular of Schuyler & Had
duck of Chicago, dated Aug. Sth:
In reviewing the evapOrated and
dried fruit market of the past year,
we have very little encouragement to
give manufacturers. The market has
been more discouraging and disastrous
in remunerative prices than the pre-
ceding year, which was unfavorable.
In short, the past year has been the
worst we have ever experienced, and
prices for July close at about the low
est point generally. Prices have been
surprisingly low in almost every kind
of goods the past year, and general
trade has been unsatisfactory. This
is the only fact that can relieve the
evaporated and dried fruit business
from utter hopelessness.
EUaporated AppJeS.-There are now
over 90, 900 cases of evapOrated apples
in cold storage in this city, and the
prospect of much improvement in
prices for some time is not bright;
hence we cannot give much encour-
agement to regular factories to COM
mence evaporating apples early this
season. The apples in cold storage
are generally the best stock, and in
good condition. There are also good
many held in cold storage in the
East, we learn. The promise of the
apple crop this year over the whole
country is not two-thirds what it was
last year. Southern Illinois is the
only section having full crop of APP
pies in the West, outside of Tennessee
and Kentucky. New York and the
New England States have generally
light crops, except in three or four
counties in Western New York
Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, and por-
tions of Erie, Orleans and Allegany.
Northwestern Pennsylvania also has
good crop. Ohio, Michigan and
Indiana have comparatively light
crops; also Missouri and Kansas.
While the apple crop will be moder-
ate, there will be no dearth of apples,
and whoever operates, in anticipation
of high prices, either for green or
evaporated and dried fruit, in our
judgment, will find himself minus
profits, if not quite proportion of
capital. With an improvement in
general business, prices in dried
fruit will naturally advance a little
from their very low point, and before
the close of the coming year better
state of feeling may reasonably be ex-
pected.
PedcheS.-The peach crop is very
small north of Ohio River, and is only
moderate crop on the Delaware pen
insula, but Tennessee, North Carolins
and Kentucky have good crop, anC
we may expect this fall to have /
supply of half peaches again. Califor
mia has large peach crop, and vii
offer a plenty of dried, which will b.
used to supply any deficiency in evap
grated from Delaware. EvaporateC
stock from Delaware will probably
be light, owing to the moderat,
crop and probable good prices 0
green, though Georgia, as last season
is evapOrating quite quantity agail
this year, we understand.
RaSp6errieS and BJdck6e7rieS-Con
trary to the experience of the pas
two years, have been defining tn
latter part of this season, and are nov
low; evapOrated raspberries beini
the lowest we ever remember then
to have been. Both raspberries ant
blackberries are good crop this year
The important question with own
ers of evaporating factories who hav
no orchards of their own, is what t
do this fall--run their factories, or lie
them remain idle? AT present price
Of evaporated apples, factories, a
manufacturing institutions, cannot b
operated with profit, unless goo
evaporating apples can be bought a
about twenty, perhaps twenty t
twenty-five cents hundred pounds
certain not over twenty to thirty cent
a hundred (ten to fifteen cents
busheD. We could not advise an
factories without orchards to ope
early on apples this fall, with tn
large stock in cold storage in view
Those having their own orchards an
evaporatOrs will, of course, utili2
their surplus apples by evaporatin
them.