The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-03-04
AMERICAS APPLE CROP.
CHANGED CONDITIONS CAUSED BY
THE LARGE WESTERN ORCHARDS.

Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska Have
Become Important Competitors With
the East-New Methods Discovered for
Utilizing the Fruit-Waste tot Jellies.
Everyone at all familiar with the
fruit industry will remember the
heavy depression that obtained
throughout the east in 1896, when the
tremendous crop of apples almost an
initiated values, says the Boston
Transcript. Along the seaboard OF
Massachusetts the writer remembers
seeing placards hung from trees offer
ing the apples at Is cents per barrel,
cider apples Is and 2Ocehts delivered
at the mills, and fine hand-picked
Baldwins delivered on the cars at 4O
cents a barrel. Considering that the
average cost of picking apples is from
Is to II cents per barrel, sorting,
heading and getting to the railroad
cost 8 cents more, and the average
cost of barrels II cents, 1t does not
take much figuring to estimate the
profit and loss to the grower who Is
forced to dispose of his crop at 4O or
so cents per barrel.
But since that exceptional season
of low prices, when all the markets at
home and abroad were glutted with
apples, when even good vinegar was
selling at 10 cents gallon and CIDER
could be had almost for the asking at
any big cider mill, changes OF great
Importance have been effected IN the
apple market.
Before that eventful year the grow
ers of fine apples in the east could
usually depend upon the exporters to
take most of their surplus crop, but
in the season of 1896 they suddenly
awoke to the fact that even this mar
; ket was being closed to them, or
fiercely disputed by the western ap-
pie growers. The west had become
an important factor in the apple prob
J lem. They had been quietly plant
ing orchards down in Kansas, Mis-
souri, and Nebraska, and, like all other
, phases of western farming, they were
, on a large scale. Twenty, thirty,
fifty, one hundred acres were planted;
then these numbers were doubled,
, and the output became so enormous
, when the trees reached maturity that
. the local markets wero swamped by
a the fruit and the growers had to rush
, their apples to the east and to Europe
TO save themselves from bankruptcy.
1t was this sudden food of fruit which
!. had been growing perceptibly year by
!. year, but which reached its climax In
!. 1896, that startled the growers of the
> east and finally demoralized the apple
: markets of England and the United
. States.
1t was no use saying that the east.
n ern apples had a finer and sharper
+ flavor than those from the west and
It that they were better packed ane
q shipped for Europe. The whole in
II dustry was paralyzed by the surplus
70 of fruit. More than this, the growers
l. realized that there would no longe
in be "of years" in the apple supply
IS There were enough orchards planted
* in the west, the eastern states ant
ID Canada to make crop large enougl
,e for oil apparent needs, even thougl
TX half the trees failed to produce ever
,e other year.
NJ There was only one thing to dc
ia The outlet had to be enlarged. Eithe
m new markets had to be found O
a. new methods discovered for utiliz
ing the fruit. Along both of thes
- lines scientific and practical bushes
men have been working, and the n
suit is there is wider market fe
the fruit this year and the machiner
for disposing of the fruit was never
IN such perfect order. =,
al. To begin with, the factories for tt
manufacture of cheap jellies hay
as multiplied rapidly, and today thel
70 nre about 1870 of them in the Unite
of States, with an annual capacity OF b.
tween $50, 900, 600 and 200, 900, OF
MS pounds. In the apple season all
nv these factories run night and day an
re they consume an enormous amount
in raw material. Originally these ia
~. tories we're established for manufa
,re turing jellies out of the apple waste
that is, the cores and Feelings of Il
or. apples, which the canneries and eva
IN orators threw away. From these cor
,er and Feelings the juice was expresst
m. and this became the foundation pril
! ciple of all the apple jellies. In 1s
90 the surplus of apples greatly i
TT creased the output of the evaporato
'ol' and canneries, and it was due to til
that more jelly factories were esta
,t- lished. 1t is estimated that the
NJ we're about 1900 carloads of was
he sent to these jelly factories. In til
,cb the offerings of apples wee SO lar
70 that the jelly factories purchased {
me-. binary apples direct from the orc
.ou ards and turned them into apl
emit syrup.
me incidentally, false impression CO
corning many of the cheap iellies,
md pecially those made of apples, shot
= be corrected. They are not unwho
some or injurious. They are not ma
For. from chemical compounds, simply
hon cause it is cheaper to make them fir
. 70 the juice of the apple cores, peelin
and second grade apples. These
nm. lies. except in quality of taste, are
700. rule just as wholesome as the MI
,vo. expensive brands, the only differel
" being that the latter are made fl
large, good-sized apples. 1t is o
fair that this truth should be gen
ally known, for the factories are II
;1Ixy ;poraarinr tho mark ct dems