The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-29
APPLE CROP PUT AT. 5O,OOO, 900 BARRELS.


 Revised estimates on the 914 4 apple crop or the United States sased on a careful Investigation in the principal producing sections gives a total, barr ring a serious setback between now and the harvest of between 5Os000. poo and 60,00O,0oO barrels. compared with 26sO00. .OO0 barrels last year and S5,- 100000 barrels in 1912.
 According to New York operators the promise is for a yield larger than for any season since 1s96. The pro- auction in the West will be the hea.vi- est ever known Washington and Oregon have n prospective yield of apples. California Is .given q larger crop than last year. The outlook in Colorado, New Mexico and Idaho is one of the best recorded, and opera tors here figure that the total box app pies production will make record tn the history of the tfidustrx.
 In New York State tt is estimated that the apple crop walI run fully 90 per cent of full yfGld. The only Rhorta@e throughout the State is In Greening variety. Baldwins will be heavy and ali other red varieties will show up heavy in productton. The New England States will produce com aideralbiy more than last season, and an unusually heavy yield Is looked for in Virkinda and Maryland and in the hlg middle West sectt0ns- Hundreds iof reports have come in from growers and extensive operators In the midi dle Wegt, and these have emphasized 1he unusually f1attefinG prospect for the big apple crop.
 In most of the .adyices received, att &enttun is directed to the tact that a ivast nupnher of-new orchards are com |4nn into bearing and that these more lEhnn cover deficiencies duo to worn out trees.
 The annual convention of the In- sfernationa1 Apple Shippers Associa- tion win be held in Boston, the first week in August. At this meeting it lis expected severa1 hundreds of the Heading apple operators of the coun- Itry win disccuss conditions as to the icrop.
 Enough data has been secured to ahow that this season is regarded as one unsafe for speculative buying at inny fyuHS den1an uedf by growers In E411e la1t tego4 yeara. New York opera A0rB as well as outside specula2ors are 1eEbo orfrt under the burdens following tkhe 1o13 Speculative deal. It is a lI4iHKtef or record that the date market showed losses of from $L.s0 to $2.50
 hAtreI on arpwsrd of s5o,O0O barrels ll8E New York State apples carried into I.ApriI. Many buy CTS last fall here and 4n the West paid from 3 to $4 per fbarre1 for No. apples and stored E&LAE4 OF LA8 LLtl4L tL1LDfl43 L t1lnG Tall land winter months, ton1yt to sell leTsntualIy at prices showing losses with carrying charges added.
 The western box apple deal of 191S- 14. ft ia said VIII so on record as the most d1Aastrotts in years srry over stock dp to week ago sold at losses oH from $1-50 to $2 per box, and a great deal of the fruit has been taken on the market under n demand, New xTasaington and Oregon rippins are selling now at 41.25 and s2.2B a box and these have efrectusaliy checked sales Of old fruit
 Reports from France, England and Germany are that the apple crops there ares-1znl1szEa 11ysa promising and that the early .Wtnt ter m ar kaes n sectzors VIII 44Ita en6Hgh to do to care for home S1 stock aha sss Afaeri- Aca.n exporters are sd with low prices from growing iinte rests.
 Some Operators here sSsert that 1t ikvflf be nnsafe this season to pay nnore then $1-5O a barrs1 for No 1 AHtock f 0 b orchard in this State tkThere are some dealers who advise speculators to stay out and force the burden of carrying stock on the grow Ter The speculative feature vil1 be lone of the chtef subjects of discus HIeion at the shippers convention in Boston-