The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-08-01
Crops and Markets.

is about ready Tor marketing.
The cherry crop in New Jersey was
virtually a failure this year. One
farmer gathered only go quarts this
year from trees that last year yielded
over three hundred.
The season for Georgia peaches is
we'll advanced and one hundred cars
of the finest early peaches ever ship
ped have reached outside markets.
The peach crop throughout most of
Georgia this year is said to be of the
very finest and largest.
Frosts did not do much damage to
the Indiana fruit crop, but recent
heavy rains in sections of the state
did great injury and caused much of
the fruit to drop off the trees. The
apple crop in those sections will only
be about Is per cent as large as usual.
George Rae, a member of the New
York firm of Rae & Hatfield, who are
making a feature of Idaho apples,
writes from New York that he re-
Gently visited Idaho and found the
crop there in splendid condition. He
says he believes the growers will Sc
cure a good price because of the fail
ure of the apple crop elsewhere. He
says that the varieties produced are
of the finest quality. He also travelled
through Colorado and says that at
some points the crop was total fail
ure and at other points the crop will
not exceed 60 per cent of the normal
yield 1t was Mr.. Rae who had much
to do with making Hood river apples
famous on the New York market.
Advices from Arkansas are to the
effect that the apple crop there is
good. The Ben Davis is the least
promising of all varieties, and there
is fair yield even of those.
Tomatoes are very scarce on the
Chicago market and from present in
dications it will be week or two until
they are plentiful. The Illinois tomato
crop is short and shipments will not
begin in any quantities before the first
of August.
Cabbages are very late in the great
producing centers of the middle west.
The ground was in such condition that
the farmers could not get to work at
the usual time, and grubs have been
at work killing the plants since that
time 1t looks as though the crop
would be short.
There is a good potato yield in Ten
nessee. Very few crops have been
dug, those that did reach the market
brought good prices. 1t is believed
that large second crop will be plant
ed in certain sections of the state.
Foreign apple buyers have agents
prospecting for the apple crop in Ari-
IONA, who have made advance offers
as high as $500 per barrel.
The Boston market complains of
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receipts for this time of the year are
very heavy and the demand is light.
Heavy shipments have been sold to
Gamers at low prices. The lateness
of the season and the previous high
prices have turned the attention OF
the consumers from strawberries and
it is a question whether the market
will recover from the black eye it has
received
New potatoes are meeting with
good demand on the Boston market.
Prices are reported firm, caused by
the heavy buying of western dealers,
whose markets are higher than the
eastern markets.
Receipts of watermelons at Chicago
have been light. Georgia melons are
beginning to arrive and South Caro-
lima melons are expected to put in an
appearance very shortly, but the sea-
son has been backward, and it is not
expected that heavy shipments will
be received for some time.
An improved cylinder crate for
peaches has been invented in Georgia
and has been endorsed by the Georgia
Fruit Growers Association. This
crate is constructed with pasteboard
pigeon hole arrangement and the
peaches put in these holes are pro-
tected from bruising and given venti-
latinn ca that they are sound and full