New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-04-23
PEACHES WILL BE COSTLY.
INVESTIGATION SHOWS THAT THE CROP
is SERIOUSLY DAMAGED.
PRICES OF CANNED FRUIT HAVE BEEN ADJ
vANcED AND NAY GO STILL TuGHER-A
ZIG YIELD IN CALIFORNIA.

VANCED AND NAY GO STILL Hl1fihi'-N
BIG YIELD IN CALIFORNIA
The wholesale price Of canned fruits has advanced
about % p@r cent on cheap grades and niue eS9
than 10 per cent on the better qualities In tS
city the use Is limited Of the low grades, whch
are principally pie peaches known IN the fruit 'rane
as seconds and packed without syrup anu
consumed chiefly in the West and Souih Inc l'i''
cause assigned for the advance Is the coil snap
that occurred in the latter part Of March whioh
bghteo the buds and blossoms OF the irul' "'oS'
which mad come ont unusually early on account
Of the unseasonably warm weather which preNali"d
earlier In that month Regarding the INJURY 10 "i.
fruit trees, and also 10 peas isaac lucK' r-ui'o vi
''The Fruit Trade Journal. showed 10 iriouh" ~
rorter the other day some eXtensv" and interesting
inflammation from his correspondents who have been
inspecting the fruit districts Their reports sla'e
that in Florida little damage was done by 'he
cold wave. In Savannah Charleston ana Newperhe'
6 c. the crop Of peas was utterly ruined WnI'e J."
Virginia and the lower counties Of me Eastern
Shore Of Maryland the crop was damaged from %
20 70 per cent and in districts near Baltimore ABOUT
q per cent.
THE STRAWBERRY AND PEACH CROPS
The strawberry crop OF the lower couhues u
the Eastern Shore of Maryland and the frul' grow
ing sections Of Virginia very seriously ih'","'
The correspondents state that their personal III
spection showed that at Norfolk the stTa"o'i'E
crop had been injured IS per cent. and III o'her
parts OF Virginia and Lower Maryland about %
pcr cent The acreage This year. however L. 50
much larger than ever before that notwithstanding
the extensive damage. the crop is expected 70 oe do
large as n full crop OF five six years ago
Regarding the peach crop OF Delaware anu May
land there seems 10 be some uncertainty. Some
growers say they have about half crop OF ouus
which withstood the cold and rain ana are syn
living while others assert that al the ouiS an"
blossoms In their orchards were destroyed Inc cor
respondents however after careful inquiry ana per
sonal inspection cstimlte that in Delaware ana
Southern and Central Maryland about % per cent
Of the peach buds are now alive, 20 per ceh' nav
ing heen totally ruined but It is feared that many
OF the buds now alive have been 50 injured thal
they will fell of before attaining maturity. In
Western Maryland and Pennsylvania the peach buds
are reported 10 been almost entirely DESTROYED
and fruit dealers have no expectation OF receiving
any supply whatever from that source.
Mr. Tuck's reports are confirmed by f. $. Judge
secretary Of the National Canned Goods Associa-
ton who has just visited the same peach-gro"inS
centres, and who opened many blossoms when
seemed on external examination 90 be uninjured
but which when opened. were found TO be ruined
and therefore the crop will be a failure
VIEWS OF LEADING CANNED FRUIT MEN.
Several of the leading wholesale dealers in canned
fruit and groceries were called upon by Tribune
reporter yesterday AMI asked as 10 the causes OF
the advance of prices. Two of the wholesale gro
GERS frequently have 10000 cases or canned run
in stock which is equal TO the entire quantity now
held by the canned-fruit dealers in Baltimore as
estimated by Secretary Judge The men whom the
reporter saw all expressed similar views. OF which
the following is summary: The canned-frut mar
ket huctustes like the market for any Other com m
last year and even with the present advance they
are by no means up to normal hgureS. but are
still much lower than At any time in the history
Canned fruit has suffered from the monetary
strngency the same a everything else has sun eFei
and Immense sums OF money have Deen LOST G,r ne
mainly attributable to the fact th3t me quantity
dinarily on account of the financial depression,
which prevented Gamers from cairXlng, on incr
on account Of the destruction Of the buds by the
cold and rain in the latter part of March is also
assigned a for the present advance OF
prices. which are expected to range stil higher
tables and of dried fruits. said he had just sold
large auany o Of corn me o 30 per p CENT onv T
months ago He also selling dried. peeled
eents two o Years ago TIE market he said was en-
tirely bare of dried apricots.
h CALIFORNIA CANNED FRUIT
d The same man. who listed California about
y month ago. said that he had discovered that the
stock Of canned fruit on hand Pacific Slope
unusually small, Notwithstanding that others
had estimated it to be large. Buyers had been
running on small stocks for a long time. on &C
market and when they were compelled to replenish
their demands greatly depleted the general stock
apricots, pums and cherries. had been advanced
about . per cent: but were sill much lower than
before and California packers could not afford
10 pack fruit present prices, despite the advance
The crop prospect in California. he said. was ex
ceent. and he showed the reporter letter just
received from the leading fruit grower Of san jose
who has 10000 young peach. pear. apricot and
cherry trees. all in bearing saying prospects for
fruit were never better. and We will undoubtedly
have fun crop Of all varieties
A leading wholesale grocer who ships large guam
titles of canned fruits 10 all parts of the North
and South and as far West Denver. COL. said
that while the crop prospects of California were
bright. the quantity OF fruit packed this would
be unusually small the packers. who had
hitherto relied on their local banks to carry them
b. 10 10 oh he CarVl
TO carry their canning business except
limited scale. California strong compct
tor with New-York and other large Eastern cities
as a distributor of canned fruits. but for some time
the Eastern cities, by having their supplies trans
ported by sail for from 81 TO s. ton. instead Of by
railroad for from so to IS, had been able 20 sell
California canned fruits for less money than the
dealers on the Pacific Slope. but account of her
immense crops California regulated the fruit mar
ket of the entire country.