The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-11-25
VERMONT APPLES
ARE GOING WEST
Representative of Chicago House
Buys many Carloads.
DOESN'T TAKE FANCY FRUIT

BECAUSE lie Cant Meet Prices offered
by Eastern Markets. but Has Pnr'
chased Many Barrels Of Regulation
ouality-vermont Apples In Demand.
Wlndham county even In an on year
is doing biz 10 advertise Vermont ap'
piles. over 20 carloads OF fruit have
been shipped from lifaitlcboFo during
The mast three weeks to- the middle
west, being bought by thesbig Chicago
fruit iohbefs, Earl brothers, Mhilc
III. rural mail boxes of Vermont farm
ers are periodically stuffed with litefa-
ture telling of the fortunes 20 be mad.
I'm RAISING apples in the Bitter Roof
region of Montana OF IN the Hood kisrt
section OF Oregon u H. Tact that
Windham county. VI, u furnishing
thousands Of barrels of apples TO Tue
people OF the west. The pakntah J.
buying Vermont apples ~ pfeieiene.
10 the apples of his neighbois ,VV
miles nearer home. ueorge =. Ah1ei'
son. representing Earl Brothers, has
shinped i,alg barrels Of apples from
Windham and Windsor counties up To
Monday morning, and practically nll OF
the fruit went 10 points west oil ,hi'
cago.
on this amount II carloads were
shipped from Braiilchoro for which tue
farmers of Brattlcboro and vicinity
received about 81 800. The buyer paid
from s2.35 TO 80 n barrel for the ffnii'
the lower figure representing the prlec
paid for No. . grade and the high ne
nrc the price offered for No, fruit.
Mr. Anderson said Monday that ms
firm would buy every barrel Of apples
raised In Vermont IL u was pae ked UNI,
formly and not put up N the snare Sl
'cracker pack rs iobbcfs term the
packing of New England apples. =,
While the Chicago buyer would
take all of the apples raised m Yer
mont he said that he was not looking
for fancy fruit put up IN boxes sueh
as were shown al the recent hOrtleui'
tural show in Brattleboro. Earl Broth
ers man arrived in Brattleboro ~ time
TO attend the fruit show and promptly
started 10 negotiate for the entire eN.
hibit. He Immediately discovered thai
fancy fruit brings higher price m
New England than IL does IN the west
and gave up attempting 20 buy the nu-
merous exhibits. AZ the close of the
fruit show Mr.. Anderson went 10
Grand Isle county with the Intention
Of huving the crop Of the islands, hnt
came away with only experience; ne
! island county apple growers made MN
prices that were beyond what ms TRADE
/ wanted. and he was Obliged TO decline
/ The buyer said. however, that there
was NOT the least reason in the world
/ why the Grand Isle growers should not
/ receive the top of the market for their
fruit He said that the apples IN that
section and also the apples of the Ames
| Hill district in Windham county which
/ had been selected for an extra fancy
hacking would command a better inquire
on any market than would western
/ fruit.
He said that his house made no dis.
! ,inction about varieties. "Apples ar.
apples TO the man of the northwest,
| said Mr.. Anderson. To show the dit
! ference between apples dumped into. a
| barrel and those packed with care MI.
/ Anderson said that he would pay ~
| cents a barrel more for the same irul,
! if il was packed and some attemp'
made at facing the heads OF the barrels
with perfect fruit. Mr.. Anderson had
maid ont over 81 900 in Windham coun'
/ ~ and the southern end of Windsor
| county up to the first of this week and
| his operations had extended over a pc
riod of only three weeks.
That Vermont apples are IN demand
| is shown by the fact that the buyers
! from the big cities come direct TO the
| Green Mountain state as soon as they
reach New England They do not dc
! this merely because Vermont is an ap
nile growing state, for New Hampshire
| also raises apples, but for the reason
that their customers call for Vermont
apples. While Mr.. Anderson has al
ready shinned over 10 carloads OF ap
pies from Windham county out of the
! local station he has, by no means, mao
things all nls own way.
Albert Decker, representing Decker
Brothers of Chicago, has bought over
| 1000 barrels of apples in this county
and shipped them from Brattleboro
having for the consignment about
| $500. Mr.. Decker has also shipped 9
number of carloads from the southern
end of Windsor county. Both men
planned to finish their buying opera
tions Wednesday and Mr.. Anderson re
NAMED in Brattleboro to eat for the
first time a New England Thanksgly
ing dinner. He is young man on ms
first buying trip east and feels that IT.
has reason to be thankful for the busl
ness he has secured for his house dur
ing the three weeks that he has been II
southern Vermont Mr.. Decker badt
i
left for his home in Dover, Del.
Both Mr.. Anderson and Mr.. Decker
hope to be sent back into this TERRITORY
to buy again next season. MI; Ander
son said he hoped that the Windhan
county growers would make an attemp,
another season to pack their No. y
fruit in a uniform manner and put i
up in such shape that the buyer coulc
be reasonably sure of the quality from
the manner in which it was packed
He said that so long as the New Eng
land and New York markets stanc
ready to pay top prices for fancy pack
in boxes Ghica 60 fruit iobbers would
not make any attempt to bid for Tho
extra fancy fruit. While western buy
ers are not looking for the Iancy pack
ing they want uniformity in barre
packages and unless the quality is W
to that set by iobbers as the "Vermon
Standard the grower will not ado
materially to his bank account.