The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-22
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/ The Florida Fruit Growers Fight
Against Shipping Oranges that Way.
! The Florida Fruit Exchange is making a
big fight against the consignment of oranges
| to the north, or to any point. The follow
ing is a reply from Florida orange
grower to card sent out by wholesale
fruit dealer of Savannah, asking on what
conditions and how the crop will be disposed
Of this season:
| will deal in oranges very extensively this
/ season, but shall not cOnsign any. If you want
fruit you can buy all YOU wish, but Florida is
| pledged against the consignment plan
That is a stroke against the greatest evil
in the orange trade, the dealer said yestsr-
| day. The independence of the orange
growers is cropping out, and the time will
come, the dealer pr edicted, when oranges
| will sell for a good deal more than they now
sell for. The amount realized fl a crop
will be very much more. When asked upon
| what his belief was predicted, he replied
that the tendency Of the growers in Florida
is to stop shipping fruit. That is, TO dis
continue the shipment of 1t except through
the Florida Fruit Exchange. The exchange
| is compose of large orange growers
| who have established headqua ters In
| jacksonville with a superb -endent to re-
ce We their fruit and all other fruits of
Florida which may be shipped to the ex-
change from interior points to be reshipped.
Every facility is afforded the superintend-
emit to keep posted about the market,
freight rates, the Condition of the crop, the
| relation of the supply and the demand, and,
| in lort, everything that is necessary to
enable him to make the best DISPOSE ion of
| the fruit that is placed in his charge. Here
| tofore the growers have been hauling their
| fruit to the railroads, and sending it off to
markets, perhaps. that were glutte1, and
instead of realizing the snip nent, G
| fruit remained unsold and decayed, and the
| growers were QUIT express charges.
| Many times the g overs shipped t. mar
| kets where the fruit was disposed of by I'M
| fair commission merchants. and a very
| much less return was made the growers
than was justly due them. Placing fruit
! ON consignment has greatly deranged the
orange trade,, -ths de ,ler id. IL has ruu
| prizes down, and at times the market be
came SO agitated that 1t was next to impos-
sible to get at the selling price.
| Even in Savannah the practice OF
on, greatly to the annoyance OF
the merchants and to he detriment of the
| trade. Last season almost every business
| house in the city received consignment OF
| fruit from Florida which was sold of al
any price to rid of il. While the con
| signment Of oranges in small cities, sucn 81
Savannah, is loosing business with the
growers consignment to the large cities i
| much more Improbable for them
Supt. Ives of the Florida Fruit Exchange
| who was in Savannah a few days, said that
since the matter has be N presented fair y
to the growers, the practice of shipp ng the
| fruit themselves, or pu Il 1t out on con
signment, is in a fair way to become thing
Of the past The change, he sal /, vii
greatly improve the business in Florida
1t VIII bring prices up. way the frui
| exchange proposes to handle thu fruit, The
| superintendent said, is to pace 1t in the
northern cities TO be disposed of at auction
by one concern. For ms ance, in New
York the agent of the Florida Fruit Elk
| change will accept the truit and it wal
| be auctioned to the highest bi der
No fruit will be consigned, d it will bt
shipped from jacksonville only in carloa
| lots. BY this means a grower who seads
| only dozen boxes will derive t 9 same
| benefit from reduction Of tn freight rate
| that large grower, who ships 200 boxes
does. Su t. Ives said that the net per box
which growers receive is not more than
| 81 49, This is not clear of the expense Of
boxes, cultivation and picking. It is be
| lieved that the exchange In doing away
| with the consignment trade, will impro ye
| the orange trade very much. The chances
are that people will have to p y more fol
oranges The superintendent said that the
| season in Florida for drop oranges is some
| what late, but the outlook for the orangt
| crop is most fiattering.