The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-30

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look like a busted" market OF
oranges. to us.
/ We also find that, notwith
standing the general Californi;
growers idea that the retailer'
are making all the money, Cal
ifornia oranges have never, il
our estimation, been retailed a.
cheap as they are at present il
New York. One of our larges'
retailers. who has a number O.
fancy branches in New York ant
New Jersey, Messrs. Acker
Neral & Condit, have been ad.
vertising lately in the New York
daily papers "Sunkist oranges
for FL cents per Dozen" We
find that James Butler. who has
about one hundred and forty re-
tail groceries in Greater New
York, is advertising in all of his
stores today Is California navels
for IS cents. This is certainly
getting California navels to the
consumer as cheap as any grow
Ter could ask for, and when the
Riverside exchange talks about
running push carts, we saw on
Fulton street near Broadway,
Wednesday afternoon, three
peddler's wagons, laoded up with
COS to I26s of California navel
oranges, with big signs on the
wagons, reading. Famous Sun
kist oranges. S for 10 cents" We
also understand that peddlers
are selling Porto Rico oranges
and offering them as Sunkist.
The writer has kept house
thirty-three years, and we have
a standing sign on our house,
mo peddlers allowed" 1t does
not make any difference to the
writer's wife. if a peddler came
along our street, and offered
California navels off the wagon
for 10 cents dozen, we would
not buy them. We buy at our
grocer's, where We are sure of re-
liable quality. With peddlers
there is no such assurance. Or
ange growers cannot afford to
raise California oranges and sell
them to man back East work
ing for ST day.
]. Fl. Roberts. one of our most
prominent fruit jobbers, return
ed a week or so ago from an ex-
tended triD through California,
aud he told the writer the other
day that he went through several
Riverside orange groves and
could not find any sweet fruit
while he was there. and this was
the first of March. We have adj
for years that no one
can estimate the amount of dam
age done every year by Californ-
ia shipping several thousand cars
Of immature fruit to Eastern
markets. Times are not what
they used to be, and consumer
who puts up 40, so or 90 cents
for a dozen of navels in Decem-
Der. January or even February,
in New York. is stuck and he
does not forget it because of the
of the fruit.
The writer has been in Cali
iornia a great many times, and
he has vet to find what he calls
IN eatable navel in California in
and he believes. and has
believed for years that if there
we're no navels shipped out of
southern California before the
irst of March. the general grow
r. would get more money for his
'ruit. What's the use Of work
ng for the railroads exclusively?
You might better Gull out one
bird of YOUR crop in California
han sell in the East at the Jan
lary and February prices this
rear.
Mr.. Coughlin hit the nail on
he head when he said. "Who is
.oing to push the exchange carts
n New York;" II the exchange
ldopts the push-cart plan, the
writer would suggest that they
tart the first one right in River
ide. and make the first stop at
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