The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-10

| state and Pennsylvania, 2lG2o; western, 2
| @24c.
LIVERPOOL.
Liverpool Dec. s-Wheat-Spot No. red
! northern spring, steady, Is I'D.
EXPORT APPLE TRADE LARGE.
Foreigners Using Their Teeth on Pro
duct Of American Trees.
| New York, Dec. 9.-The export trade
in apples from this portbegins to as
sumo considerable proportions early in
November, and the shipments to New
York-the greatest distributing centre
| for trade-continue to the middle OF win
| ter. Outgoing freight steamers. and
even the big passenger liners, Did for
| the apple-carrying trade, which in re-
cent years mas grown enormously. AM
erican and Canadian apples are the best
in the world, and they are gradually find
| ing their way into every European mar
ket
Liverpool is the greatest distributing
centre for our apples abroad, and 1t
| stands next to New York in the number
o. apples received and sold. London.
sumers of American apples; but az Liv-
erpool most of the auction rooms re-
ceive and dispose of the export crop.
AS many as one hundred thousand bar
rels have been sold in one week at re-
munerative prices in Liverpool, and ev-
cry week from now on the sales Of Amer
lean apples will form a conspicuous fea-
&,,r Of bo n
The auction system has materially i'm
proved the apple trade in England, and
it has helped to reduce the cost of plac-
ing the fruit on the British market. The
ocean freight on barrel of apples varies
from forty to sixty-five cents, but the
charges In Liverpool for dockage. town
dues, insurance, advertising, sampling,
and the labor of handling amount only to
ahou. I'd. Add to this five per cent
cost Of delivering and selling apples in
England.
The auction rooms are well-arranged
places, and on the days OF advertaised
sales buyers appear in large numbers.
There are regular sales on Mondays.
Wednesdays and Fridays. The apples
are brought direct from the steamer TO
the auction place. and are catalogued az
cording to the shipping marks and vari-
ETY.. Some OF the shippers are so well
known that their goods are sold upon
their reputation without being examin-
ed; there is always q demand fot such
goods. All of the other brands aresam-
pied in this way: In the centre OF the
auction room, where all Of the buyers
can see what is going on, two barrels out
of every twenty are opened, and the con-
tents Of one barrel are emptied into a
basket Each buyer mas TO take at least
twenty barrels; but IL any in the lot ne
hos purchased are slack" they are re-
placed by others. A slack" barrel Is
one which rattles when roughly shaken.
These slack" barrels are sold separate
". and where a regular barrel win bring
les, the slack" barrels from the same
lot will be knocked down at 2s 20 4s
This system has operated very power
fully to make American shippers pack
their apples with great care. So muci
Importance is attached to the packing
that many American shippers buy their
apples either in the market or direct
from the farmers, and then repack ev-
cry barrel. This increases the cost lit
tie. but it pays houses with good reputa-
tons TO do it. They employ expert
packers, VINO do the work yfapiily and
scientifically. and when the barrel is fin
;shed by them the fruit cannot be sl1sk-
an by the toughest storm that ever tum-
bled steamer.
Each suctioneer who has apples 10 dis
pose OF ias forty minutes in which 10 sell
MS fruit, and IL not then all sold he
must stand aside until the others have
had their turn and It comes around to
him again. The auction. frequently go
on till midnight on days when heavy
consignnents arrive by steamer. A
single auctioneer has sold as many as Is
0c0 barrels OF epples in oneday.
The British buyer has very decided
preferences for certain varieties OF ap-
pies. and the shippers have 70 cater 10
their notions. Baldwins have IN the
past been great tsvorites on account ot
their high color and attractive appear
ance: BUT the Ben Davis apple has re-
paced the Baldwin ID a large degree
lately More OF the Ben Davis variety
are shipped abroad than any other, and
more orchards are being planted with
these than the Baldwins and greening.
combined In the west ani southwest
orchards consisting OF hundreds o. acres
gre planted with nothing but Ban Davis
apples. Nevertheless. the fruit is not
by any means superior 20 tier fine veri-
eties: in fac;, there is decided p-e.sr-
ence in this county for sucl apples as
the Baldwin. King. S,Ow, Gravenstein.
pound sweets. ard greenings- Many
tastes however. make 4; possible % So!
ali sgand, wel-kept apples; but highly
colvei varieties always meet tie best
demand FOR table u>s irrespective % ots-
g qualities Il Il ore o. the little pecu-
liari,ies o. our modern lie in ~Iaich We
permit our sense 10 ove--aie and de-
ceive the ether Our sens OF seeing
probably decides orr ehciee ot eating.
sitter al. a. much as the seuse Of taste
u smell.
They say that the ostrich can digest stone
and broken glass We wonder II an Ostrich
ever tried 70 digest an American rad'sh.-