Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-09-05

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plish this result. There are driers
with their capacities ranging from
one to two bushels Of green apples
per day, up to thousands.
The work can be done just as well
and as cheaply on a ten-bushel ma
chine as in any of the large factories,
many experienced has been that
they are the least expensive. Often
1t will pay to evaporate the whole
crop. 1 have often realized more for
culls than for the shipping fruit.
One hand can run ten-bushel
drier, with twenty-five cents worth
of fuel, and make fifty pounds of
white fruit per day, which, at ten
cents per pound, about the average
price, would net four dollars and
seventy cents, making nearly fifty
cents a bushel, including the days
work, and at this years prices, would
be over seventy cents, and II the
waste is dried, almost dollar.
Again, one important point thus
gained is culling out your shipping
fruit, making it grade fancy, and
thereby obtain the highest market
price for it.
Market only the best, evaporate
the rest. Thus you would avoid the
breaking down the markets for the
green fruit. This is always done by
inferior stock being run on the mar
ket, and never by good choice fruit.
We can, at nearly all times, see APP
piles quoted on the market at Is cts
to 81 .25 per barrel. These represent
loss to the grower. All of this kind
should never go on the market, but
market for evaporated fruit; you
have nearly four barrels of apples in
a fifty-pound box that can be ship
ped just as safely to Alaska, China
or India, as to st. Louis, and you
need be in no hurry to market it,
Next spring is as good as this fall
and often better prices are obtained
When properly packed, and with
proper storage, it can be kept fol
years as fresh and sweet as wher
first prepared, except little loss in
color, but even this may be over
come by cold storage.
ffprices are as low as they were
two years ago, when it was worth
only from four to six cents a pound
and the waste and chop less than ont
cent, it can safely be kept over unit
there is shortage like the present
when fifteen cents can be obtained
for the white fruit, and four to fiv,
cents for chop and waste The chol
is apples sliced just as they are with
out any pairing or coring, and dried
in this the small and knotty apple
that cannot be pared are used. TIL
work is done quite rapidly with
machine made for the purpose; fort,
or fifty bushels can be sliced in al
hour by two hands.
One bushel of apples will make tel
pounds of chop, which is now wort
four cents pound.
The waste is the skins, cores an
} trimmings from white fruit, whic
needs no other preparation only
put it in the evaporation, dry it an
pack it in sacks and barrels ready fC
shipment. 1t is used for making je
les, and usually brings about one-ha
; cent more than the chop. Most {
the chop is, understand, shipped
Europe and there manufactured int
fine wine and sent back to this cour
try and sold at from one to five do
! lars bottle. The price is, therefor
| greatly influenced and governed
the grape crop in the old countr.
: Many thousands of tons are manufa
l tured each year. Everything can /
used, nothing wasted.
A delegate said:-I think still mo
can be done than the gentleman say
J, l evaporated some 1,4OO pounds
fruit which sold for ten cents p
> pound. l made use of every part
. the fruit, except the wormy pa
Vinegar was made of the waste.
sold some ten or twelve barrels
: twenty cents per gallon, $3.50 per ba
l rel of forty-eight gallons.
9 picked out the choicest to sh
% and evarorated the culls and seconC
. which would have damaged Il
: whole lot if shipped together. T
, vinegar apples made nearly as mu
e money as any. l melted $85, using
j cider mill that cost SIS. We use
- pear corer and slicer to prepare
II apples for driving, Wife and two