Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-09-20
AUGUSTUS APPLE CROP.
SOME SUGGESTIONS ABOUT HOW TO AID
IT'S SALE.


SOME SUGGESTIONS ABOUT HOW TO AID
IT'S SALE.
The apple crop of Augusta is SO great
that it is simply unmanageable. Those
who travel the county bring word that they
see apples under the trees knee deep. Mr..
H. Hamilton of South River, has sold
3 900 barrels for As cents a barrel. As the
amount of money gotten for apples depends
great deal on the way in which they are
prepared for market, we copy the following
suggestions made by the National Apple
Shippers Association on the subject:
l. 1t will be to the advantage of all inter
ested in apples growers, dealers and COM
sumers-if there is a recognized size and
quality of package, as well as for size and
quality of fruit, both in what is now
known as No. l and No 2 apples. A good
size Of package is easily suggested
one that has been in use for some
years by the best class of western dealers
barrel THAT is, a barrel with III inch diam
eter of head and 28a inch length of stave)
will meet all requirements, giving good
generous looking barrel, and when well
shaken down and pressed, holding three
bushels of apples. In some sections OF the
West, the barrel now in use is smaller
than this, but these barrels are invariably
Disseminated against in price by the better
class OF traders in fact, they are generally
spoken of as 1.-THE snide barrels" In a
good apple year like the present, the differ
ence of a peck Of apples will mean to the
grower not more than five cents in the Or
chard; but when the apple comes to sell in
the market, the small barrel will bring on
an average at least % cents less. Besides
the trade is SO generally convinced that a
package ''snide" in size generally contains
fruit ''snide" in quality, they avoid it as
far as possible, and as a consequence in
times of oversupply they are the ones neg
lected, while the more honest looking, if
not really more honest, packages are given
more prominence and consequently better
sale.
2. It is not so easy to arrive at proper
standard. for size and qualities of the same
varieties vary considerably in different
sections and in different seasons. The
standard adopted by the association will
come as near to properly covering the
ground as is possible without naming var
ietles of apples, and it is recommended to
your favorable attention
"That the grade No. shall be divided
into two classes, A and B. That the
standard for size for class A shall be not
less than RI inches in diameter and sh all
include such varieties as the Ben Davis,
Willow Twig, Baldwin Greening, and
other varieties kindred in size. That the
standard for class b shall be not less than 2
inches in diameter and shall include such
varieties af Romantic. Russets, Winesap,
Jonathan. Missouri Pippin, and other
varieties kindred in size. And further.
that MOL apples shall be at time of pack
ing practically free from the action of
worms, or DETACHMENT of surface or break
ing Of skin, and shall be hand picked from
| the tree"
This standard does not prevent any grow
er who may have good apples below the
standard of size in either class from mar
keting them for what they are. Occasion
ally, some really choice fruit might run
below this standard, but the exceptions. are
so rare that there can be little objection to
the standard as fixed.
"These SUGGESTIONS are to the interest of
every intelligent, capable apple grower. 1t
he finds that his neglected fruit will not
grade.as No. 1. But.that class has no leg
itimate place in the industry. To increase
the consumption of apples, the consumer
must be pleased, and nothing will tend to
that end 80 much as to furnish him W 18th a
better, rather than poorer apple than be
expected when he made his purchase. Let
the barrel branded No. 1, be not
only No. 1, but fine; and let
the purchaser find the barrel branded No.
2, not cider apples, but good fruit. Each
barrel sold under this plan will make a Gus.
toner for two more, and crop OF apples
cannot be raised in this country too large to
[sell at fair prices, and that without gong
to Europe for market for the surplus.
sit may be too much to hope that all that
is outlined can be accomplished this year.
but by cooperation long step can be made
toward it. One thing is sure in this croE
year, the grower who most closely follows
the suggestions will be the man best salts
fled with the results of his years work"
The Great Circus Next Tuesday.
There could not at so cents for grown
people and half fare for children or, We
suppose, at any other price be a better show
chan the Sells Bros. circus which shows
here Sept Oath and of which the following
description is given: