The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-08-31
MONEY IN 80
CENT PEACHES
Says j. N. Perry, Who Adds That
It's the Green Grower
Who HowIs.
HALF OF RECEIPTS ARE
COMING IN OVER-RIPE
While Prices Are Low This Season,
In Past 6 Years, Average Has
Been As Cents, Which Means
Big Money.

The price OF peaches remains in tho
vicinity Of 80 cents, some buyers
along the Rialto paving 30 IL cents
for extra prime stuff, very little OF
which appears to he coming on the
market. most OF the fruit being too
ripe for long distance shipping
II don't want to say anything to
discourage the small shipper" said
j. NJ Perry yesterday but it's a fact
that only about 80 per cent Of our
receipts are in the right condition,
the rest is either too green or too
ripe. This IS the result. not only OF
holding off leaving fruit too long in
the trees in the hope Of getting high
er prices, but also OF incxperience on
the part of the grower. Orchards
change hands frequently. and about
as soon az a man has learned how
to pick and pack peaches somebody
comes along and offers him big
price for his place.
Money in 3O-Ccnt Peaches.
REALLY. l don't see why anyone
should be discouraged about the
peach situation this year. One OF
the biggest men who hauls fruit to
my WdItHpuSts VINO LAS aiEe3uy
shipped 10000 boxes. tells me he can
grow peaches and make good money
at 30 cents And | personally know
that taking the high price with the
low this year he has averaged AZ i-2
cents. It's the little fellow who comes
into town in a buggy with half 4
dozen boxes on the seat beside him
who is making so much noise about
losing money on his peach crop. And
these same small growers are the
Identical chaps who bring in overripe
and underrpe fruit. We have to re-
fuse It, because IL would be refused
by our buyers at the other end OF the
line, and possibly prejudice future
sales. We'd like to take IL, but we
can't
The man who knows his business.
who prepares for his crop, hires his
men and goes to work in a business
like way is making no complaint
about peach prices this year. But the
average grower is about as hard TO
get out OF his rut as a York state
farmer. We almost have to get down
on our knees and beg him to buy rub
Der stamps to mark the boxes with
tHc name Oh the variety anu tHe NUM-
Der of peaches in the package. He
would far rather let the packer write
it on the outside so carelessly that
nobody can tell whether the box con-
tains 20 peaches or 90.
Average Price Is Good.
"Of course peaches are lower this
year than they have been some years,
but that's true Of every product ana
it always will be. We have had IS
cent and S0-cent years, and now and
then we get a 30-cent year. In the
last six years the price received will
average 40 or A. cents. What more
can the grower ask II he Will cen
tent himself with the knowledge that
he will average that figure year In
and year out, and not figure on get
ting 80 cents a box each year because
he got 1t once, there will be fewer
names called in the fruit bust
ness But the grower who has once
sold az the high figure SENS 70 think
somebody is combining against him
to rifle his pockets If he doesn't get
It every year.
"A great deal OF the fruit IN this
district is rapidly becoming too ripe
for long distance shipping. T often
find green and over-ripc peaches
packed in the same box one man
today brought in a load OF Hungarian
peaches----the kind that brings s.
crate in Chicago---so oyer-ripe that
they we're as red as blood. They could
not have been shipped to spokane