The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-08-16
TO UTILIZE THE APPLE CROP.
An ENTERPRISE Established in Richmond 10
Dry The Fruit.
A BIG SHIPMENT MADE TO GERMANY.
The Core. and Feelings Sent to France and
Made Iaso Charnpagne-This Can Settle q
Very PerpIexing Question.

An enterprise was inaugurated in this city a
few weeks ago that has degree OF Importance
attached TO il thai should result in immense
good to the entire State Located on the dock
near Seventeenth street Messrs. Walerstein
a Co. have esta lished plant for drying APP
pies and OF err fruit. They are now working
one large dryer with capacity OF $50 bushels
of apples per day, another Of equal capacity
is in course OF construction. and the third IS
soon to follow. bringing the capacity OF the
works to $50 bushels OF apples per day.
The establishment now works about twenty
hands and the peelIng. coring ana siicing Is
all done with wonderful nicely ana RAPID W
by improved machines. Nothing - lost-eTen
tie skins cores and bits are dried and sold.
THE BEST.
The best apples are bleached in a sulphur
yapor, and when dry become beautiful
creamy white They are packed neatly III
fifty pound boxes and labeled for shipment.
The second class are not so beautiful. and the
grade descends TO the pile OF brown cores
and peelings which 20 to France 10 make
champagne, 70 be returned TO America IN
beautifully labeled bottles at , 8 each.
While Tn TIMEs' reporter was present yes
terdav number OF boxes Of the incest trade
3
for shipment % Germany. MIR. VI aLtrstrln
saws Germany is the best market IN the world
for good desiccated apples. and that he e1-
pected 10 ship largely TO that country. livery
quality of apple is used IN this establishment
and none of this fruit IS too inferior
for turning 10 account in this process;
The an, les which lie upon the ground
and rot in nearly every orchsrd
in Virginia b. the value If many thousands OF
dollars can he made profitable by this means
A product which heretoo has been waste
is likely u become a source Of profit. hessrs.
Wallerste n a Co. are also starting drying
estai lsnu ent OF O0 bushels daily capacity IN
Stuart. Patrick county, Va. winch l. a
famous apple country. They say that the
business Is a proitsDl one IN the North anu
We t. and that With our che y labor, plentiful
and earlier fruit. Virginia ought TO com etc
and outstrip even New York. which has
worldwide reputation for her dried apples.
THE FUTURE OF THE INDUSTRY.
Wallerstein Il Co. speak in very spirited
way about the future of che industry, and
they hope 10 see many manufactures started
in Virginia and the trade iostered until her
apples wil'seil on their reputation. as in the
case of New York. The shipment which Will
be made to Germany will reach It's destipa-
ton in two weeks whereas none OF the
Northern and Western dryers can place their
fruit there before October lst. and this fact
alone gives Virginia a splendid advantage,
When these gentlemen prepared to start
the business in Richmond they apprehended
difficulty in securing apples enous h TO fill the
demand, but they ind that they can procure
without trouble three times the amount of
fruit they can handle. When good apples ara
a drug in the market at fifty cents barrel. as
is shown in an article in Yesterdays
TMrs. a consumer. like the establishment re-
ferred TO, lecomes Of much value TO the pro-
Queer. The establishment of these drying
houses all over the State would speedily set
tie the question Of what to do with our fruit,
and the efforts of the Agricultural Depart
ment to make market for it by endeavorlng
to procure low rates Of transportation to
Northern cities would not be question OF
such importance