The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-01-18
Ar1ERICANs41APPLES.
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Since the West dpsNorthwest entered
extensively into apple growing. the So
called "of years. in this crop no longer
affect the markets as they did Is and 20
years ago. One season of great scarcity
then, with extremely high prices, would
often be followed by. a year Of superabund-
ance. when the markets would be glutted
with apples, which were difficult to dispose
of at any price. The thousands OF acres of
apple orchards in the great West prevent
an old-fashiOned famine in apples, and the
improved methods of exporting the fruit,
and the numerous factories which make
cheap jellies and preserves, tend to dis
tribute the abundant crops so we'll that un-
profitable prices do not rule in the markets
in good seasons.
The present harvesting season of the apple
is now in progress. and the official reports
indicate an ''of season. which 10 years ago
would mean an apple scarcity this winter
that would make the fruit an expensive ar
ticle of diet. But prices will advance only
trife over those of last season. The
factories will consume fewer marketable
waste, such as cores and Feelings, for their
supply. These jelly factories in good sea-
sons buy apples on the trees, but in years
like the present they can make their apple
syrup jelly from the waste of the canning
factories. There are some 100 factories in
the country engaged in canning this fruit
and making cheap jellies and syrups. In
the aggregate they have an annual capacity
OF over 200 900 jars of Jelly alone The
1ellies made from the apple waste are al
most as good and wholesome as those manu-
featured from the whole apples The cores
and Feelings, and small, inferior apples
are ground up and thejuice extracted there
from. This Juice or syrup becomes the
foundation of the cheap jellies and not
chemical compounds, as some suppose.
The West has become such an impor-
tant factor in the apple problem that it is
estimated that these comparatively new
orchards could supply all the apparent
needs of the market if ohalf the trees in
the country failed to produce anything At
first the sudden flood of this fruit from
Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Michigan and
other Western statest completely de-
moralized the Eastern markets, reaching
climax in 1896, when apples in New Eng
land were offered on the trees at Is cents
barrel, and hand-picked Baldwins de-
liyered on the cars at 40 cents barrel
The orchards in the West were planted in
80, so and 100 acres and in order to pre-
vent growers from going into bankruptcy,
great flood of the aples was rushed to
Europe. The exports of our apples have
consequently grown topphenomenal proper
tons, and without this demand the crop
would prove financial failure every sea-
son.
Liverpool is by far the greatest distribut-
ing point for American apples, and as high
100000 barrels of our apples have been
sold there in one week, and at remunerative
prices London, Glasgow and Hull also re-
ceive immense cargoes Of American apples,
and absorb on an average from $1,000 to 3d.
600 barrels week during the season. The
apples are sold In Liverpool by the aue-'
ton system. A large room is provided for
the buyers and the auctioneer In the CEN
ter of this room there is a portable plat
form or freight elevator, where samples
of the lots to be disposed Of are exhibited.
An auctioneer who has line to dispose of
has 40 minutes at his disposal and if his
goods are not all sold in that time he must
temporarily stand aside to make room for
another salesman. Monday, Wednesday and
Friday are the auction days, and a single
auctioneer may dispose Of 10000 to $4,000
barrels in day. The apples are catalogued
and those brands which have a reputation
for honesty and good packing frequently
sell without sampling. One barrel from
every lot of 20 is opened on the portable
the difference in the distance from the
markets. The cost of delivering barrel
of apples from a town in Kansas to New
York is very much higher than the Hud-
son river growers have to pay when they
send their fruit down by boat.
Our yellow Newtown or Newtown Pppin
is probably the greatest favorite in Eng
land, and it often ssllsi for two or three
times as much as any other apple. This
variety was introduced in London by Ben
jamin Franklin in 1858, and has been
prime favorite ever si11ca Next to this the
red varieties are chiefly in demand The
Baldwin is good apple for export, for it's
high color pleases the English, and it has
good shipping qualities More apples of
the Ben Davis variety are grown today
than any other, because in the West it
does better than almost, any other type of
this fruit. 1t is good keeper and shipper,
and sells fairly we'll abroad In the East
this variety does not do as we'll as in the
West. The Rhode Island Greening, North
ern Spy, and Winesap other great fav-
orites at home and abroad, and they are
raised in large quantities in this country
and Canada.-ScientiRc American.
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