Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1914-09-12
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country. Chose WHO put up BIKES,
grade every viii: as carefully as
northwest growers.
This Apple Pie Ridge got It's name
in the long ago. AS far back as local
history goes, there were apple trees
on the ridge, when they wouldn't grow
elsewhere and the three great varie-
ties, York, Crimes and Pippin, came
| from ancient seedlings. This county
was the home Of the apple ages be-
fore it became known commercially
! In the way Of marketing, consider
able progress has been made. Carl
Kimball and w. M French, Of New
York, have been here and are hand
ling fruit on commission. John Nix
& Co., Of New York, are getting
quite a lot Of commission, and tn
| growers have gotten very satisfactory
returns for their summer fruit and
| Northwest Greetings. Some Phila,
delDhia, Baltim ore, Pittsburg and Chi
cago houses have men here, buying
| and shipping on consignment. Grow
| ers here believe that the excellent
| quality Of the fruit it's accessibility,
! cheap freight rates (27c to New York,
TIC to Pittsburg, 42c to Chicago and
| corresponding rates to other large
| markets) ought to make 1t the favor
lite section Of the country for fancy
| apples, and in view Of the general
apple situation, it does seem the part
| Of wisdom to invest in the Berkeley
| county fruit which may be secured at
reasonable rates and consequently
sold at reasonable rates, as against
! the expensive northwestern apples.
| whose high cost to the consumer no
matter how little the grower gets for
it. limits It's consumption and dimin-
ishes materially the consumption OF
| the better favored eastern apples.
John Nix & Co. are getting on con
| signment the bulk of the Northwest
Greetings from John M. Miller, Gold
Miller, DR.. S. N. Myers, G. B. Wilt
shire, DR.. Clifford Sperow and some
others. These gentlemen have very
fine fruit and their returns, $3.50 t
$3.75 barrel, have raised their hope.
Imightiy. They give full credit to the
New York house. and that houses
stock Is mighty high in this valley
Nix & co. can get anything they want
from this county. The only limit Is
the amount the house is willing to
handle. These Northwest Greetings
are very fine and deserve good price.
and the returns encourage the grow.
ers to hope that this may not be such
a bad year after all. They have some
fine apples through here, and there is
a general determination to exclude all
understood, imperfect apples, and
give the markets only the best. The
growers figure that with the vast
amount Of undergrade apples sure to
be shipped this fall, there will be a
premium on the strictly fancy fruit,
and that's the kind they have in this
county.
Some Of the dealers who came
through here two or three weeks ago
pronounced the apples understood.
They said the trees were too heavily
loaded to grow large apples. Those
dealers should come again. The rains
of last week have brought out the
sizes wonderfully, and the average
| sizes are fully up to the standard
Furthermore, the growers here say
no single orchard or cluster Of or
chards should be taken as a criter-
| ion. Some dealers come, go through
| the orchards Of single owner, find
| it not up to the standard, and form
their ideas Of the entire crop by It,
This won't do, especially this year.
There IS some fruit here which isn't
| up to standard, Is always the case
everywhere, but 1t Is the exception,
and, moreover, 1t is due to specific