The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1914-12-17
NORWAY OFFERS POS
SIBLE APPLE MARKET

Consul Jaeckel, of Stavanger, Nor
way, reports that Yakima apple grow.
ers and shippers are making inquiries
regarding the outlook for apples in
Norwegian markets this season. The
situation, he says, has changed consid-
erably since last year, owing to the
European war, and the activity of
English importers and exporters not
ably of Hull. Says the consul:
Local dealers are a unit in stating
that the crop in Norway is a very poor
one this year. In normal crop years
fully half the apples consumed in this
consular district are imported: conse-
quently the proportion of apples i'm
ported during the coming year will be
considerably larger than usual.
"Most of the apples imported into
Stavanger are purchased in Hull and
Liverpool, England. The dealers there
furnish weekly price quotations to their
agents here, and as there are direct
steamship connections between Hull,
Newcastle-on-Tyne, Liverpool and other
English ports. the StaVanger fruit
merchants are able to take advantage
of low quotations on apples by cabling
their orders and receiving shipments
within three or four days. The major
ity of the apples purchased in England
are American, both eastern and Pacific
coast.
lowing to the fact that American
apples are shipped to England in very
large quantities, Stavanger dea lers
usually can purchase small lots more
cheaply in England than they can in
the United States. Due to the lack of
cold storage facilities in Stavanger,
purchases must be made in small lots
during the greater part of the year.
Weekly shipments from England, as
their needs require, are therefore very
satisfactory to Stavanger.
I'm addition, the dealers are afforded
an opportunity to examine and reject
damaged fruit without prolonged con-
tention with the sellers, purchases in
England being made at 30 days, with
three per cent discount for cash within
that time. At the beginning of each
week the agents for English commits
sion merchants inquire of Stavanger
fruit dealers what quantities of apples
they desire. Orders are then cabled to
England and shipments are received
here at the end of the week.
Local dealers state that they re-
ceive occasional shipments of both Pa
citic coast and eastern apples direct
from the United States, but as it is
impracticable, at most seasons of the
year, for dealers to order apples in
large quantities, the prices for such
direct shipments are considerably
higher than for shipments purchased
in England, Dealers generally express
satisfaction with the quality, condition
and method of packing American box
apples. the proportion of damaged ap.
piles being considerably less than for
those packed in barrels.
ut is believed that during the win.
ter and spring months here apples can
| be kept in good condition for two or
three months. 1t would therefore seem
probable that local dealers could be in
duced to purchase in large lots shipped
direct from the Pacific coast during
those months, provided the prices quot,
ed are satisfactory.
The Danish steamship company
AS Det 0stasiatiske Kompagni has
recently inagurated a new Pacific line
with monthly sailings from Christiania,
Norway, to Colon, Los Angeles. Sar