The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-13

Changed Conditions Resulting From the
Planting OF Large Orchards I'm the West.

Changed Conditions Resulting From the
Planting ofLsrge Orchards I'm the West.
From the Boston Evening Transcript.
Along the Hudson river fruit region
and In the western part Of the state
the apple orchards are shining golden
and green with the fruit of another
crop. and the growers ara anxiously
asking themselves II the low values of
two seasons z are going to prevail
again this year. Every one at all ia
miliar With the fruit industry will re-
member the heavy depression tnat OBJ
tained throughout the East in 1886
when the tremendous crop of apples
almost annihilated values In many re-
gions. Along the seaboard OF Massa-
chusetts the writer remembers seeing
placards hung from trees Offering the
apples at is cents per barrel. cider APP
pies Is and 20 cents delivered at the
mills. and fine hand-picked Baldwins
delivered on the cars at 20 cents a
barrel. Considering that the average
cost or picking apples Is from Is TO II
cents per barrel. sorting. heading and
getting to the railroad cost s cents
more. n h average cost of barrels
Is IL cents. IL does not take much ig-
uring to estimate the profit inc loss to
the grower who Is forced to dispose
OF his crop at 40 or SO cents per barrel.
~ tfat '&etlNACAdi StdrOu "
low prices. when all the markets at
home and abroad were glutted with
apples. when even good vinegar was
selling at 10 cents n gallon. and cider
could be had almost for the asking at
any big cider mill. changes OF great
Importance ave been effected in the
apple market. Before that eventful
year the growers Of fine apples In the
East could usually depend upon the
0xnnrfarl ~ tale vnAat 90 tA.fx
plus crop, but in the season OF 1896
they suddenly awoke to the fact that
even this market was being closed to
them, or fiercely disputed. by the
Western apple growers. The West
had become an important factor In the
apple problem. They had been quiet
ly planting orchards down in Kansas.
Missouri and Nebraska. and. like all
other phases of Western farming. they
were on a large scale. Twenty. 30. 80.
100 acres were planted: then these
numbers were doubled. and the output
became so enormous when the trees
reached maturity that the local mar
kets were swamped by the fruit, and
the growers had to rush their apples
to the East n TO Europe 20 save
themselves from bankruptcy. 1t was
this sudden flood of fruit which had
been growing perceptibly year by year,
e1h w ANh1 hth lNE NAlAldA III 1850,
that startled the of the East
and finally demoralized the apple mar
kets of England and the United States.
IL was no use saying hat the East
ern apples had a finer and sharper
flavor than those from the West and
that they were better packed n
shipped for Europe. The whole indus
try was paralyzed by the surplus OF
fruit. More than this, the growers
raalizad that fhnra urat.ll M I,n..~ L..
"or years" in the apple supply. There
were enough orchards planted In the
West. the Eastern states and Canada
to make a crop large enough for all
needs even though hall the
trees failed to produce every other
year.
There was only one thing to do. The
outlet had TO be enlarged. Either new
had to be found or new meth
DDS discovered for utilizing the fruit.
both of these lines scientific n
practical business men have been work.
ing. the result Is there is a wider
market for the fruit this year and
the machinery for ~disposing OF the fruit
was never In such perfect order.
To begin with. factories for the man
.ufacture OF cheap jelies have multiplied
and to-day there are about 1870
OF them In the United States. with an
tntlud Capacity ol DttNttn obsVVV.oVt
and 200. 900. 900 pounds. In the apple
all of these factories run night
and day and they consume an enormous
mount OF raw material. Originally
factories were established for
manufacturing jellies out Of the apple
Is, the cores and Feelings
u the apples. which the cannerles and
evaporators threw way. From these
cores and Feelings the Juice was ex-
pressed n this became the foundation
principle of all h apple tellies. In
1896 the surplus of apples greatly in
output of the evaporators
md ~canneries. n IL vas u to this
that more jelly factories were estab-
IL is estimated hat there were
about 1900 carloads OF waste sent to
Jelly factories. In time the offer
.ngs OF apples were so large that the
Jelly factories purchased ordinary APP
pies direct from the orchards n turn
"a them into apple syrup.
Incidentally a false impression con-
many OF the cheap Jellies. espe-
those made OF apples. should he