The herald., 1896-07-02
MARKETS OF THE WORLD
Local, Eastern ard Foreign
Commercial Dealings
WALL STREET SPECULATION
Fruit Notes From Many Sections of the
Country
Old Stocks Of Dried Fruit Cleaned Up-De-
moraIized Lemon narkets-Prosp:cts
of Great Apple Crop

Fruit trade notes are at this time of spe-
cial Importance Last week cleaned up all
the old crop raisins in this section, three
carloads. The San Jose Prime association
is reported to have sold out all old stock of
prunes in their hands, amounting to nine
teen carloads.
The Philadelphia Grocery World states
that that city used AGO. 900 barrels of apples
last year.
The eastern lemon market has been bad
ly demoralized this year. The Commercial
Bulletin of New York attributes this to the
poor quality offered and the absence OF
warm weather.
Everything points to a good apple crop
at the east this year,
New York fruit growers are increasing
their peach orchards rapidly
Early in the season reports reached us
from Georgia placing the expected output
of peaches in that state in excess of the
season of 1895, when over 900 carloads were
shipped from that state to various mar
kets. Later reports go to show heavy
drop has shortened the prospects. Now
we are Informed by reliable correspondents
that the outlook is for only about one-half
as many peaches for shipment as were har-
vested in 1895. but that the fruit will he
larger and finer in every way than hereto
fore. Conservative estimates place the
crop of 1895 at about 500 carloads for ship
nellt. Southern Georgia promises to out
do itself in the production of peaches this
year by furnishing the largest crop on
record.-California Fruit Grower.
Consular reports on the cider crop of
France show production Of S34, 1Oi, 1858 gal
Ions IN 1893, as against So7, 619, 460 gallons in
1892; 2i5 703 600 gallons in 1884, and 291, 500 0f0
gallons in 1890 A comparison of the guam
tity OF gallons of cider produced in France
in 1888 with the average production of the
preceding ten years, shows an increase in
that time of 500, 500 600 gallons. or an aver
age annual augmentation of 50,350,0O0 gal
Ions. Although the cider crop is made UP
by sixty-fve different departments. more
than half of it comes from six departments
the Viaine, the Calvados the Cotes-
du-Nord the Seine-Inferieure, the Manchc
and the Orne-in other words, from Nor
mandy and Brittany.,,and it may be added
consumption. the imports and exports be.
ing practically nil.
The Fresno lIxpostor says the California
cry and dstilery in that city at cost of
$3.50, coo. The paper thus describes the build
ing: THE storage cellar. 140x100, will stand
between two vast circular fermenting eel
lars, each of which will be 100 feet in diam
eter. In the storage cellar there will be
placed ten 50O00-gallon tanks and twenty
tanks of 10000 gallons capacity. The
crushing machinery will, of course be To-
Gated in the fermenting cellars, high above
the tanks. which will receive the pulp. OF
these tanks in each fermenting cellar there
Each tank will be 5000 gallon capacity. The
association expects to crush each season
more than 10000 tons of grapes. and the
annual output of the establishment. if
gallons of sweet wine" The idea seems
to be to work up the low grade raisin
grapes into sweet wines and brandy. The
market for wines is greatly improved and
prices this year will be good
The rasin market would be greatly re-
lieved by taking out the low grade grapes.