The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-12-19
APPLE CROP IS
IN COLD STORAGE
RECORD-DREAKlN VOLUME, MORE
THAN SIX MILLIONS BARRELS,
so HELD.
CONSUMER PAYS DEARLY
NEW workers., BUYING IN SMALL
QUANTITIES, PAY 800 PEP
CENT. MORE THAN AVER
AGE WHOLESALE PRICE

s,1o0. 900 barrels of apples in cold ana
common storage In the United states,
or about 100000 more than were heio
on December ! last year.
The aNsGage December l holdings Tor
FIVE years was 100000
In 1906, the record storage year.
there were $4,000 barrels held on
December /. q
The 1906 crops went into storage at
a price that would allow q movement
70 consumers around $500 a parrei.
out Of storage and still show q pront
TO buyer and shipper.
The 1911 crop went into storage at
an average price OF 32.50Q2.76. which
means that II must be sold at s3Q3.2S
for the owner to break even.
The record movement for any OF the
FIVE consuming months, January. FEB
ruary, March and April. was 100000
barrels.
To move the present stocks Will re-
quire that over 100000 barrels per
month must leave the coolers. allow
ing an extra million to go into sum-
| Iuer.
There are held In storage in Vir-
gtnia about 100000 barrels, with near
| ly 5000 in West Virginia, against
| 5000 In Virginia at this time last year.
| New York State holds 100000 bar
rels in cold storage. with 100000 In
| common.
New York City, including Jersey
/ City. has 100000 barrels in storage
| Chicago and Illinois storage houses
have practically 100000 barrels.
The 1907 storage was only 100000
! barrels, a drop OF about 100000 bar
| rels from 1906. but the fruit went into
storage at such high price that the
| owners had to sell in April and May
| at about one-half the actual cost OF
| the fruit. The years 1908 and 1909
| were duplicates of 1906 and 1907. The
year 1910 was similar to 1905 and
| 1908. 1t looks as If 1911 will repeat
the history of 1907.
The highest exports from the United
States in 1903 were 100000 fbar-
rels. The lowest was in 1895, when
only ISL 900 barrels went across. The
average for the past 10 years ranged
around 2.250.000.
This years crop was fully 100000
| barrels. In 1905 there were $4,000 900,
and in 1904 100000
About 100000 barrels have already
been exported. So that. coming to the
general average Of exports. not over
100000 would have to go over dur
ing the next three months to make up
the average export.
Reports from a dozen storage houses
show that the shrinkage is much
greater this year than others. while
fruit In common storage, because OF
the continued warm. muggy weather
is softening SO rapidly that 1t must bs
!, practically all marketed within thu
. next is days.
Storage reports do not include full,
100000 barrels held In barns and eel
lars by farmers throughout the East
All foreign DN9Pl<Rfa xutt
p indications Of unsteady conditions To-
the next month. Fancy NewtowI
), Pippins were bringing at Glasgow OF
: Thursday S4.SOQ8.25, while common
= brought S3.350p3.S5; Greetings, $3.1
Q410. Deducting 81 per barrel TIN
4 average cost Of laying fruit down OIL
:. the other side, one can readily Sc
what the American fruit Is netting.
= Conservative estimates show that /
per cent. OF the apples held are b,
farmers SO Cat this SEASON losses viii
be shared alike by the trade and tn
growers. just what the trade IL gotn
to 90, or can do. to stimulate a de
>, mand for apples Is problem whicl
4 , requires serious study Consumers il
New York are paying to the retail
grocer Is per quart. or soc per pecI
{ for ordinary apples. Few apples coul
: be sold even at 81 per barrel to tn
i consuming public. Not one family Il
d a thousand could find room In thei
I. fiat or apartment In which to plac
: a barrel. The cellars are kept warn
by furnaces or some heating plan,
h so that there liz no storage space TO
t fruit In any modern house in THU
: the greatest consuming center, with it
: 100000 OF population. No packag
= or box containing over one peck, 0
4 one-half bushel, could be successfully
n sold retail hcNaYJaA nt van
% of room. as New York fat dweller
IA buy all their foodstfs from day I
;. day. Sales are In small lots ant
IT usually ordered by telephone from tn
Ia nearest grocer. The half dozen mid
"a dlemen between the produce merchan
and the consumer add successfully
II F150 per cent until the consumer l
!, paying usually 2oo140o per cent NOR
- than the wholesale price.