The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-25

year of nearly two million barrels,
compared with last years moderate to
small outturn.
In the Central West, including the
usually important States of Arkan
sas, Kansas and Missouri, there are
evidently a few more apples than
last year; but the quality is very
uneven, and the merchantable supply
rather small at best. Colorado is
forceful and in evidence as a prom
inent producer, now moy large
quantities of splendid frui The Pa
cific northwest has not had bril-
liant year, although large quantities
of it's superior boxed apples will
come out of the market between now
ana New Years.
The Market and Movement.
AS long ago as last August the
New England Homestead called at
tention to the nervousness of mid
delmen, constituting the spectators,
the wholesale dealers, the commission
merchants, the shippers to foreign
parts. 1t was there outlined they
were apprehensive that the realiza-
ton of an impaired apple crop would
disturb the price equilibrium. In
convention they urged their fellows
to hold down their bids to orchard
lists; then every mothers son of them
went home and scrambled to contract
sible.
Result, more or less business in
September and early October in New
| York State, much fruit changing
hands, and liberal contracts in the
relatively plentiful apple sections of
Michigan; prices to growers ruled
high, as shown in these pages from
week to week. Sound fruit also
commanded the figures in other i'm
portant States, such as Ohio, Pennsyl-
vania, Virginia, and the scattered
having sulplus over home or neigh
borhood requirements. Then came
something of a deadlock, particularly
in New York, where growers were
very stiff in their views; many OF
them inclined to hold, and buyers re-
luctant to pay the high prices of $3.50
per barrel for No. l standard varie
ties, and from that point upward. Ir
fact, the closing week of October
found considerable numbers of or
chards still unsold in the heavy pro
ducing sections
In New England something of thu
same condition prevailed, especially
as the crop in Maine is proving {
short one, and elsewhere east of tn
Hudson river irregular to small.
In the large distributing markets
such as Chicago, Buffalo, Philadel
phia, New York and Boston, goot
many apples are going into storage
At the same time owners of SCUM
fruit are endeavoring to get this int
consumptive channels as rapidly a
possible. They argue that in sea
son of high prices, such as this, it |
important that the bulk of white
reserves should be out of storag
and moving into consumptive chan
nels by the middle of winter.
In Foreign Parts.
The crop of the Canadian provin
ces is always important commerce
ally. This year, Ontario, Quebec an
, Nova Scotia have a good many al
!, pies. Beyond limited home require
/, ments, these nuts find market /
, Europe, chiefly in England. The in
; portant bearing on domestic cror
and prices is evident. Recent carr
full estimates to the New Englan
o Homestead regarding Nova Scot
q crop credit that compact but impor
ant territory with all the way up
100000 barrels, or better, availab
for the English market, and alread
I moving. Western Ontario, the sectio
b. between Buffalo and Detroit, has
v good many more apples than la
v year, but the quality is deficient
I chief cause over there, as well as
k our own Eastern States, was droul
s and aphis, this insect pest being III
q usually troublesome. Eastern o.
n tario has a good many apples al
Quebec fair showing, largely sue
= sorts as Fameuse and Wealthy, the
: running as high as 81 and $3.50 p
l. barrel.
l. The export trades in American al
l. Canadian applies is not yet fully G
S tablished, but fair movement is a
Is ticipated. High prices this side
e the ocean, however, will cut into t
S, consumptive demand in the Unit
r Kingdom and on the continent. T
}. English crop is reported modera
W one, while Germany and other Eur
n pean countries show up only met
is UNI crops, and these mostly out