Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-18

| QueStlOn tndC SuOulU Interest everyone i
the best mode of getting her rapidly-in
creasing products on to the market TO insure
success.
HIGH PRICES AN OBSTACLE To TRADE.
We find California fruit has been in the
market like fine horse-it would be looked
at and admired, but few inquire the price
| because they knew it was beyond theil
ability to buy. When we commenced Il
| get cherries by express it was hard to sci
forty to fifty boxes of morning; on inquir
ing, we found the retailers were sellins
! them by the pound at such rates as only
| few felt they could buy. When We SPOKE
to several parties and told them we haC
some nice cherries, they replied, i" We sup.
| pose they are nice price On telling
them what we were selling them for, they
remarked they We're glad the time had
| come when they could buy California fruit
at something like fair prices; as it had been,
| they rarely ever asked the price. for it had
| always been above their means"
| SCATTERING THE FRUIT BROADCAST
The arrival of our first car of cherries,
| some ten days ago, of $50 boxes, we found
| the amount too much for the market here,
so we scattered them to the various cities in
| the north. east and south. Boston. Phiia-
| delphia, Baltimore, Washington, Hannibal,
| Dubuque, St. Louis, Memphis, Nashville.
| Louisville, La Crosse, Winona, Minneapo-
lis, st. Paul indianapolis, Cincinnati and
Cleveland-all except one or two places we
| received not as much, and some places more
than we sold for here
On receipt of our dispatch that there was
another carload of cherries started, we not
only wrote to the parties 10 whom we had
previously shipped asking how many they
a n u-jtt J,
whom we had formed acquaintance in the
| following towns Buffalo, Pittsburg, Kalo-
| mazoo, New York, Terre Haute, Burling-
| ton, Dayton, Grand Rapids, Mansfield, Val
| paraiso, Fort Wayne and Columbus and
! those who had them from the preceding
car, with the exception of few, said,
Send as many and some doubled their
| previous orders. Some who had not had
any replied, They did not know what
! California cherries would sell for in their
market, as there had been none there and
| if we should ship some, they would do the
very best they could, and open up a trade
| for other California fruits as they come into
the market" Had they arrived in order
| we could have sold them more readily than
the first They were much out of order,
still we did much better than we expected.
1t is by push, by letter-writing, talking
travelling and by every other means we can
employ, that we expect to introduce Cali
fornia fruits to all parts of this great coun-
try, and III a few years, in the place of Cali
fornia fruit-growers going around despond-
emily, and asking the question, What are
we going to do with our fruits?" they will
be planting new orchards and the people
will be asking Why do you not give US
more California fruits?'
FAST FREIGHT FOR FRUIT.
\ car of 10000 pounds, attached TO pas
senger train, costs three cents per pound,
and the railroad people say very shortly
they will have in successful operation n fast
freight that Will carry fruit al 81 70 per 100
pounds. Pears could be Slipped without
damage on thai lime if picked in ill., proper
time and perhaps some other kinds of
fruit
We are satisfied that fruit when properly
boxed and packed in the car, will keep
much better in transit than it would in the
same time either at your place or here We
have been quite astonished to see such ten
der fruit as cherries come through in such
good order that they could be reshipped all
over the Northern cities. In cars attached
to passenger trains the fruit comes through
in better condition than in express cars,
IMPORTANCE OF GOOD VENTILATION.
The main thing in green fruits is ventila-
ton, and the expressmen pay little atten-
ton to that, but Pile things very closely to-
gether in poorly ventilated ears. By mum
Der clubbing together and shipping different
things, there ought to be no trouble to get a
number of cars from your section during
the season, and at three cents per pound
anything that would come through in order
ought to pay. The advantage of having
several join together is that they may have
plenty of time to pack their fruit with care,
and still get a car load fresh. The fruit
should be picked of morning, while cool,
and kept from getting warm by exposure to
the sun. The main things for shipment
will be plums, peaches, grapes and pears.
CAREFUL PICKING AND PACKING.
AS they have number of black grapes
that are much used, the shippers of Cali
fornia grapes should use care in asserting
and picking, 50 rs to sustain the reputation
California grapes always have, for should
the quality run down so that they viii not
be sought after, the black grape here viii