The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-11-21
This Years Apple Crop.

Apples are raised all through the New
England States. In this state apples are
grown in all the counties along the Hud-
son river from Westchester to Albany, but
the greatest apple growing section Of the
state is found in the counties along Lake
Ontario from Oswego to Niagara Falls.
There are also prolific apple districts in
the interior of the western part of the
state. Apples are raised in New jersey,
in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Northern
Ohio, and there is an apple belt in the
southern part of that state along the Ohio
river There are apple areas in Virginia
and in West Virginia and Kentucky.
There are apple belts in Michigan and
Wisconsin, and apples are raised in Indiana
and Illinois. There is an apple belt along
the Missouri river in Missouri and Kansas.
There is an apple area in Iowa and smaller
areas in North Dakota and South Dakota
Beyond the Rocky Mountains apples are
raised in Washington, Oregon and Cali
fornia.
The greatest apple state of the United
States is New York. The greatest apple
counties in this state are Niagara, Orleans,
Wayne and Monroe, in the Ontario belt,
and Genesee, adjoining that tier to the
south. The greatest apple producing
county in the Hudson Valley belt is Column
bia.
In Canada apples are grown in Nova
Scotia, there is a big apple belt through the
Annapolis Valley, and there is great
apple region extending along the left bank
of the St. Lawrence river, the north shore
of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. the east
shore of Lake Huron and around the
Georgian Bay.
The American apple crop this year
throughout the apple producing regions of
the continents is the greatest on record.
There are districts, some of considerable
area, in which the crop has not been great;
there are some districts in which the crop
has been small; but, relatively, these dis
tricts bear but very small proportion to
the total area. Substantially, the crop is
general Often the weather conditions
are such that there are large crops in some
parts and practically none in Others. This
year the season has been favorable to the
maturing of fruit, and nature has been
propitious almost everywhere, and the re-
suit here is a crop beyond comparison. In
Europe the crop is light
Estimates of the crop vary greatly. A
wholesale fruit merchant, who is very
large receiver and shipper of apples, esti-
mates the total apple crop of the continent
this year, including the United States
and Canada, at $4,000, 900 barrels.
Another commission merchant, very
extensive receiver and shipper of apples,
estimates the total American crop this
year, including the United States and
Canada, at 40, 900, 600 barrels, of which
about seven -eighths would be produced in
the United States. Another commission
merchant, also a very large receiver and
shipper of apples, said that the total Amer
lean product might be As, 900, 600 bar
rels, of which 40, 900, 900 barrels would
be produced in the United States. A
large shipper of Canadian apples estimates
this year crop of apples in Canada at 4,
600, 900 barrels.
1t is said that Niagara county, in this
state, viii this year produce 100000
barrels of apples. In one part Of the
country and another great many apples
will this year go to waste, fol- the reason
that they would not repay the cost of
gathering, packing and shipping.
The principal shipping ports of Ameri-
can apples are Halifax, Montreal (and
Portland in winter when the st. Lawrence
is closed and Montreal shipments go by
way of Portland), Boston and New York,
and some apples 60 from Philadelphia and
Baltimore. In the total annual shipments
the percentage shipped at the several ports