Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1895-11-15
APPLES FOR QUEEN VICTORIA


The Missouri Fruit Is the Favorite With
Her Majesty.
1t has long been the custom of Queen
Victoria of England to send to Missouri
for apples for her own use, says the POST
1ntelligencer. This good taste on her
maJesty's part Is extending to her SUBJ
5ects and the Importation of American
apples into England now forms an i'm
portant part of the Atlantic trade. The
state OF Washington can produce as fine
apples as any in the world, but they need
care in the culture and in the packing. The
New York Sun says:
the three or four consignments of
American apples recently sent to the Lon
don markets have sold more readily and
brought better prices than the California
peaches, pears and other fruits which
were shipped to England in July, August
and September. 1t is good news for Amer
lean apple raisers. The New York market
has for some weeks been supplied with
apples that no American citizen ought to
be asked to eat, either raw or cooked. II
is discreditable to American fruit growers
that we have had so much inferior fruit
here this year. We have noticed that Ore
gon is boasting loudly of its fruits, more
particularly its apples. Have these Ore
gonians ever heard of New York, or of
the million people here who want first
grade American apples?
Although Missouri has succeeded best in
pleasing royal palate, Maine, New York,
Ohio. Michigan and Indiana ship large
quantities of apples to Europe. Every
where In Great Britain Newtown Pippins
are held as the finest apple that can be
bought. Next to them in point of popu-
larity comes Baldwins, and then Kings.
The Ribstone Pippin is generally consid-
cred to be the finest apple that England
produces.
Only the finest fruits find a market. al
though the demand for cooking apples is
greater than those to be eaten raw,
There is an immense cror this year in
Europe, and the importation may be
smaller than usual, yet the prices given
for the American article are said to be
fair. Some American apples sold in Glas-
gov the other day brought net prices like
these: Forty-eight barrels at an average
of 1922; 45 barrels at an average of $279;
ID barrels at an average of $2.14. Sales at
Liverpool were: Fifty-two barrels at an
average of $1.4S; As barrels at an average of
S2.67, and 81 barrels at an average of
$3.50. These figures show a price to the
grower of about 70 cents more a barrel
than he could get by selling in New York
Freight charges average 10 to 20 cents
a barrel
From the season of 1SS0-S1 to the season
of 1S9O-91 total of 7,652,46S barrels were
sent abroad. In the four years since then
considerable more than half that quanti-
ty has been dispatched, or 4266,870 barrels,
was in 1922, when very close to 1900, 600
barrels went over. Last season fell little
behind these figures; l, 438, 155 barrels were
exported
Not per cent of the apples that are
shipped from American ports go anywhere
except direct to Great Britain. in 1894-95
out of the 1,43S000 barrels exported only
q, 10 were sent to ports other than Lon
don, Liverpool and Glasgow. To liverpool
alone went 853,19S barrels, consignment
going over every week of the season, from
July 28 to April q. In one week alone,
that ending october q, 1894, 1897 barrels
were forwarded to this one city.
In each of these great markets Of the
world there occur weekly apple auction
sales, and to these come buyers not only
from everywhere in England Ireland and
Scotland, but from Germany, Holland and
Belgium. Thus, though the export tables
do not show 1t, very large quantity of
this American fruit finds it's way eventu-
ally into the southern countries of Eu-
rope.
Although the better qualities are mostly
in demand in England, 1t is said that in
France the little, green back speckled
"Swores" have been sold as high as Sc a
barrel. 1t is not easy to explain why they
should be preferred to Baldwins or Kings
but there is no doubt of the fact.
Our state farmers and orchardsts
should turn their attention to this nutri-
trious and wholesome fruit as part of the
product Of their farms The markets are
to be reached and 1t is only quality which
need be considered.