The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-03-05

million barrels went into storage in
Chicago the aggregate difference in
lrice means millions of dollars to the
apple growers who get thun. No
wonder they watch the market prices
Tor different varieties, market prefer
ences In packing. and the seasons.
Feb. "a this year Spltzenbergs and
Northern Spys from storage sold at
$2.5O to S4.2j and the Ben Davis. Of
happy memory, brought S2.25. The
old New York state apple. the king"
that made Tompkins county famous.
brought 81 per baI rel OF three bushels
while the stark Delicious a variety
which Is served at 20 cents each at
the expensive hotels, were grudglngiy
doled out at 50 and SO per one Dusaol
box.
Iowa produced the original tree
from which have been propagatcI
millions of trees now bearing STARK
Delicious apples, the distinctive flavor
and texture of which has put II into
q class by itself 1t frequently is eaten
like peaches, with sugar ana cream
Any one can recognize real Delicious
by the five nobs at the blossom end. 1t
Is bright red apple. splashed with
yellow, and oblong in shape. Apple
men Know them as far as they can bc
seen and layman can tell them every
time by the fiavor--and the price.
Nowadays the man who makes the
big money In anything" a pilgrim
from oregon observed. "is the one
who sells something 50 good that the
people who can win pay extraordinary
Irices for it. There are a lot of peo-
rle In this country who demand and
viii pay for peaches months before
any peaches are ripe this side OF South
Africa, and the man In South Africa
who Is wide awake tJ hts opportunity
WIN have the right kind of peaches to
sell to him when peaches are not
to be had anywhere else in the world
Someone in South Africa evidently
has that sort of an enterprise for on
tile menu card Of an exclusive hotel,
along with English ho,house grapes
at $1.75 per bunch and the 20 cent
apples de luxe IS the item; "South
African peaches, each 60 cents"
Cooperative buying and selling has
become well established in the west
but naturally managers for the
growers association are not so much
interested in unusual profits as in the
packing of the staple varieties that
they have to marNet In hundred car.
load lots Their "Hye wire" members
however who want to beat the average
prices go on an annual still hunt
visiting Chicago, New York and small
er markets, to learn why the dispari-
~ exists I'm crop season between the
varieties of apples. Success or failure
is represented sometimes in the prices.
At the sale of the Wenatchee Fruit
Growers Union on September II,
1903. the range of prices per box was
posted as follows: Arkansas Black,
S2.lO; Baldwin $l.15; Bellllower.
S1.50; Ben Davis. S1.4O; Stark Deli
cious, $500; Gano $3.50; Jonathan,
S1.9O; Missouri IPBppin $1.jO; North
ern Spy $1.15; York Imperial SI15;
Rome Beauty, s1,75; Spitzenberg.
$2.5Q Stayman Winesap, $2.OO.
Grimes Golden, S1.50; Wagner. $115;
White Winter Pearmain $40; Wine
sap $2.25; Winter Banana $500; yell
loW Newtown $500.
Here was disparity in price between
Spitzenbergs and Baldwins OF $1.35 or
120 per cent. and between Ben Davis
and Starl, Delicious OF $3.50 and
some of the latter were sold later at
81 a box. 1t is that additional profit
that the pilgrims" are after.
The Jonathans that adorn the cor
ner fruit stand at 8 cents apiece or
dinarly sell In Chicago at about 81
a box wholesale at this season. but
the apples de luxe in the fancy gro-
GERS shop command $A and So and
even $40 and sig a box The Ben
Davis sells for $3.50 a box and It has
cost just as much to grow It ana just
as much for the box, freight. storage
and carriage for $3.50 bushel APP
pies as for varieties THAI bring two or
three tiines as much