Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-08-22
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DRIED FRUITS.
How to Market it---Prospects for q
Good Trade.

vile, KY, issue the following circu-
lar, which will be Of interest to fruit
grower:
To all parties " no carried over
dried fruits during the past season.
there was sufficient compensation.
On the 10Th day of July 1890, we sent
out circulars oall our friends and pa
irons urging them Ia dry all the fruit
they could secure as it would un-
doubleday bring the highest price
known for years. Every one who
took our advice and bought fruit
while it was cheap, made money, and
made big money.
Owing TO great scarcity of fruit dur
ing the season just passed, ALI holders
of old iruit were able to realize hand
somely on their investments, and
stock that in former years would
have been unsaleable and dead
loss to the owner, brought very graf
flying prices, Especially was this
the case with dried peaches which
for the past three years had been a
drag to the market. .
The market op, ne@on peaches at
. to q cents per pound, and rapidly
advanced to 7 cents pound, in car
load load lots. nsmall lots as high
as 10 cents per pound was realized
for common sun dried peaches. z
Dried apples opened at cents, and
closed at 10 cents, at which price
stocks wereall closed out, notwith-
standing this high price. AT this
writing we feel safe in saying that
no sun-dried apples, or sun-dried
peaches will be carried over next
season, at home or abroad.
Our reports from Europe are all to
the effect that the markets there
are bare of all kind of dried fruit.
Owing to the extreme scarcity of
fruit last season, and the consequent
ly prevailing high prices, there was
hardly any foreign demand and our
export orders were very light, but
this year we expect to do a very
large business abroad.
Our agents in Great Britain,
France, Germany, Belgium and Hol-
land report the finest prospects ever
known for profitable business this
year. We do not look for extremely
high prices this year, but the volume
OF business will be much larger and
the result about the same.
The Eastern market will be good
buyers of fruit from this section this
fall, as the crop is short there. In
view of all these facts, as stated
above, we earnestly urge all parties
to dry all the apples they possibly
can secure, and sincerely believe that
in doing so they will be well repaid
sUN-DRIED APPLES.
Apples of large cut, well peeled
and cored, of bright color, are worth
at least one cent per pound more than
apples of smaller cut and slovenly
cared for. All bright apples will
meet ready sale.
CHOPPED APPLES.
There is a growing demand for APP
pies unpeeled and not cored; that is
quarter the apples and dry then
with peelings on and cores; while thu
price for these goods will not bt
worth as much as bright apples
they will find ready sale and there
should be little trouble in curing
them. They should be shipped sep
arate from sun.dried apples.
Louisville is the most importan
market for sun dried apples in thi
country, and has the largest foreign
trade.
PEACHES.
Peaches have been almost drives
ont of the market by California fruits
The slovenly way in which the,
have been prepared in this State
Missouri, and in Tennessee, is tn
cause of all this. But if peaches ar
dried properly and not burnt, and c
good size they will meet with
ready sale at good prices.
All merchants in country town
can readily make money on drie
fruits, by shipping it to market whe
they buy it, and not pay over MAJ
ket quotations; but if they pay NOR
than market value merely on tn
idea that it will be higher, they Sc
dom make, but lose. Parties ofte
write us asking for advice whether
buy and hold or sell. We AWAY
answer, buy so you can sell at pro
it, and sell at once. Would like [