New-York tribune., 1903-01-25
AMERICAN APPLES ABROAD.
Great Increase in Exports the Last Year
WHY Germany Is Not a Good Market.

Te Roy n Y Jan. q (SpeciaD.-The shipments
Of American apples European markets have
tripled in year. says Patrick Gleason, OF lie
Gleason G. Loomis Cold Storage Company. MI
Gleason has just returned from an extensive trlp
through Europe and the British Isles for the pur-
pose OF sizing up the apple situation there from
the point Of view OF expert American grower
and shipper. The result of his Investigations VIII
carry great weight with growers not only IN
Western New York. but also in all parts of the
country for few men are considered better quail
flied TO Judge Of the market and its conditions
than Mr.. Gleason He is generally known In TINS
part of the country as the Apple King. ana III
the three great cold storage warehouses which his
company owns and operates in this village, Roch-
ester and Bethany, are stored annually more than
a quarter of million barrels of apples, to say
nothing of thousands of barrels Of other fruit,
Mr. Gleason's foreign trip included visits to the
principal cities of England. France. Germany Aus
tria and Italy H. says that the whole or con-
tinental Europe offers an immense market Tor
American apples and that seven-elghths OF 1he
normal supply must come from this side or the
Atlantic. one-eighth he declares. OF the neces-
sarv suppy for Europe is raised on European SOIL
and these apples he adds, of inferior quahty
and completely consumed before the American IN
vasion begins. Mr.. Gleason deduced the following
statistics on the shipment of American apples 10
European ports between September 10 ana De-
cember p. 1902:
To IjverpooI. which is the greatest distributing
centre for fruit in Europe. SOS barrels; TO
London. 274 1870; Hamburg. 1851: to other hu-
ropean ports, $685. total. Il57so harrels lot three
months. For the corresponding season OF 'Hiee
months ended December 81 1901, a total shlpnlelI
of 10. $50 barrels was received at the same ports
It will thus be seen than the exports more thah
tripIed last year. One reason for THIS MI Iled
son saws in addition to the comparative scafclt9 vi
the crop in 1901 lies in the fact that prices were
much higher then, and that under such clrcurn-
stances the European buyers hesitate to take any
great risks in laying in extensive stocks
The average of prices Mr.. Gleason says. for the
1902 crop which is considered representative was
from 81 50 to s2 50 q barrel net. at port of entry
In some cases. he adds where the stock was par
ticularly good or the competition brisk American
apples sold IN Liverpool as high as s. barrel at
the steamer dock.
Mr. Gleason is convinced that Germany IS tie
great field for the American apple grower to dis
nose of his nroduct in but explains that in break
ing through the network of laws and regulations
which have been set up to prohibit the inVaslo"
and protect the German producer the nervous
American shipper has nerve racklng obstace 10
overcome. Mr.. Gleason said:
American producers would have magnificent
market for apples in the land of the Kaiser II II
were not for the laws and restrictions Whlch 'he
government has put up as a bulWaTk apparently
for the protection of the German grower These
obstructions surely do have a great ERECT IN
keening American apples out, but foothold has
been gained, especially in Berlin. where the Amer
lean apple has wide popularity Inc chlel
form which these attacks on the American grown
fruit take is in the formal complaints made
against the San Jose scale. Every apple that comes
into Germany from this country, you would tnlnh a
was as dangerous man with the cholera ITO from m
the fuss they make about it. 1t is simply another
outbreak of the reprisals which were made in the
case of American pork. -.
Mr. Gleason said that in the course or MS EURO
pean Investigations he observed that western NeW-
Yorks leadership in the raising of apples Tor the the
world is unimpaired abroad In diverpooi Lon 12-
don and Hamburg and also in Berlin he saw
thousands and thousands Of barrels bearing the
marks of growers and shippers whose territory
lies between the GeneSee River, Niagara ana Lake
Erie
THAT stretch OF country said Mr.. Gleason
grows more and better apples than any other
part of the world He also says that there Is
fne market for pears in Europe although so Tar
the expectation has been more of an experiment
than of business. In enlarg1ng upon the l1rpor..
tance of Western New-York the apple centre OF
the world, Mr.. Gleason pointed out that OF me
900 600 barrels of apples in storage in this state
of January / 1903 100000 had been raised barreled
and stored between Rochester and Buffalo.