Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1911-09-29
The Apple Market.


IN the apple market in this section so
s,r The buyers are still holding out
and buying but few apples and have
l,oon giving from $40 TO $3.50, but
tba growers are still holding out for
20 40. and it appears that the buyers
and sellers cannot get together.
THE growers, or at least most of
the largest growers, have made ar
raneements for storing their apples
and will take the risk of the market
and we learn from the market reports
,bat the same conditions largely pre-
rail in New York State. There are
Going to be hundreds of thousands OF
barrels of apples go into storage at
the flowers risk and THE market
seems as unsettled as ever
New York Sept. 22.-Reports were
aying thick and fast this week about
buvers that had broken loose in
western New York and were scooping
in apples at all kinds of prices, rang
ing from So to $3.50 and that grow
ers had finally given up their So idea,
and that deal was on in earnest. Dill
gent Investigations by The Packer
here fails to disclose any such con-
dtions 1t is true that fair amount
Of business began late last week at
from 81 for Greetings up ID $3.50
for red fruit, growers to furnish bar
rels, but operations We're slow and
continued along steady lines to the
end Of this week. Many false reports
we're circulated about big operators
being in the game 1T was said that
E P Loomis & Co., of New York,
which concern opens the deal almost
every season, had bought heavily, but
Mr. LOOMS says that he has so far
taken very few apples. He returned
u New York from Rochester Thurs
day morning, and said that in his
opinion, farmers, account of their
ideas Of SO apples, had concluded to
store and that two-thirds of the stor-
age space in the state had been con-
tSaed by farmers. 1t was also re-
pred that C. H. & c. w. Kimball
were taking orchard after orchard,
but a letter from Carl Kimball, who
is at Rochester, received by the firm
the middle of the week stated that
ne had not bought 1000 barrels of
| apples in New York State as yet.
Slow but steady buying started in
lOckport section about a week ago and
is now working gradually back along
the Falls route toward Rochester.
j, Branch, who represents E. r.
Godfrey & Sons Company, Milwau-
kee, has bought about $4,000 barrels
at - to $3.50. Crutchfield & Wool
folk have taken from 10000 to $4,000
barrels at about the same prices
These, except several Bahrenburg
purchasers, are about the only big
ent- There are quite number of
small dealers buying who take in
1000 TO 1000 barrels for their own
use George w. Olivit, of Olivit
5Fothers, who always operates heav-
y in the Woolcot section, writes his
nrm from Rochester that he has as
yet done very little business. In fact,
Up to the middle of this week, Olivit
0Tothers have not bought one tenth
OF the fruit they usually put away
every year.
Len Calvert, of Dockport, was in
new York last Saturday, and he con-
arms the report that most all of the
~ge growers will not respond to of
e's of 81 to $3.50, but that quite a
lumber Of them had sold. However,
ne believes, that at least twlo-thirds
VI me fruit is yet in farmers hands.
-4'e wires this week to The Packer,
Viu not Indicate that there is a rush
''1eSo, Out mere ana tueie Sniail
'aeS are reported at 81 to $40 for
'eenings and 1920 to $3.50 for Bald
WINS Tor fruit picked to ground and
F"er furnishing barrels. Agents OF
''eral European firms are in the
Ds'1 and are said to have bought
''N 10000 barrels. which report was
hot verified.