The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1904-09-15
APPLES MUST SELL
FOR Low PRICES

New York special to the Chicago
Fruit and Produce News says:
Apples are arriving in the eastern
markets in very liberal quantities.
Shippers are still sending in early sum
varities, which are being held to long
before going into consumption. With
the large surplus of this class of fruit,
dealers must work it out at wide range
in prices The bulk of the apples COM
ing sell at $l.25@1.50 barrel, with
occasionally nice stock bringing Sl.75@2.
Poor apples will not bring over 81, and
in some instances they 60 as low as rs
cents.
Another reason for the low prices at
this time is the lack of demand in Europe
because of the quantities of early fruit
which has this year been raised abroad.
While the crop Of apples along the Hud-
son River is light in many sections, it
has more than been made up in quantity
by what is now in sight all the way from
Greene to Niagara counties in New York
state. There are also heavy crops in and
throughout New England.
Many of the apple growers in western
New York are on the anxious seat and
are beginning to realize that they must
sell their apples this year for great deal
less money or they will find later in the
season that still lower prices will be
offered. Dealers say that where growers
are reasonable and are accepting any.
where from 65 cents to So cents for the
nakid fruet the buyers are taking, hold.
Farmers who are holding out for higher
prices will find their customers loaded
by the time they are ready to sell.
The foreign markets are beginning to
take hold of American apples. Previous
to this week prices were relatively low
on all stock, ranging 90c.@$2 a barrel
net, New York, as against $2@5 for the
same period last year. E. A. O'Kelly x
Co. have advices from their people in
Liverpool, London and Glasgow that
buyers are commencing to look for Amer
lean fruit. Baldwins, Kings and other
red fruit will do we'll if of good quality,
and exporters are advising shippers that
it is absolutely necessary that only first
class, selected stock should be shipped
abroad. The foreign markets have too
much inferior stock of their own, so that
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will make shippers loss if sent over.
Tomas Russell of Glasgow, Scotland,
says that the prices which apple growers
will realize this season will be so per
cent less than last year.
Owing to the immense apple crop in
certain sections of the East there has
been an increased demand for pickers,
and the New York Central Railroad is
helping the apple growers by transport
ing the pickers to the apple belt at a
low cost.
The apple crop of England and the
Continent is reported large, and it is
believed exports will fall off for this sea-
son, although good, highly colored win
ter apples will always find ready sale in
England.
Michigan has such bumper crop of
apples that it is a question how to dis
pose of it profitably.
Illinois and Mississippi have light
apple crops this year and the quality
poor.
Consumers may be assured that no
attempt will be made at cornering the
apple crop this year. 1t would be al
together JOO large pTOpOSlJlOli anu
the best posted men in the trade say
that anyone undertaking to do so
would soon find himself in very close
corner.
Apple barrels will bring big prices
this year.
The Ben Davis, as red apple, and
the Russet are the longest keepers.
Experts say regarding apples that
for their preservation almost every
thing depends upon keeping them in
cold place, and that apples will stand
without injury and with profit tem-
perature of 30 degrees.
The fruit growers of Woliville Val
ley, Canada, usually expect what is
called an "August gale" They got it
this year good and plenty, as their dam
aged apple orchards show.