The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-09-23
NEW YORK APPLE
CROP IS IMMENSE
Growers Get Only $1.50 Per Barrel
for Orchard Run in New
York Market.

upstate fruit growers nave coHi-
nIained to market officials here that
the price offered them by the dealers
is not sufficient to cover the ex-
penses of picking, says the New York
Daily Commercial. Upstate growers
assert that the apple industry In this
state, by far the greatest apple
growing state in the union, is being
seriously threatened on account OF
the low prices offered by the dealers,
who, in turn, exact fancy prices from
their customers.
Commissioner of Public Markets
Edwin j. O'Mallay, a few days ago
received telegram from growers at
Morton, N. Y, in which an appeal was
made that something be done to as
sure better price to the producers
and at the same time save the apple
crop for the consumers. The tele-
gram was signed by Frank M. Brad
ley, president, and Seth j. T. Bush,
secretary of the New York fedora
ton of agriculture. It read:
Farmers of New York state have
10000 carloads Of apples to sch, the
finest ever grown. Approximately
1000 cars ready to ship now. The
price offered the grower, only one
cent pound or S1.50 a barrel, will
not pay picking expenses. Do your
people in New York want any Of this
fruit? Unless something can be done
to increase the demand and thereby
secure for the grower a market for
his fruit and price that will cover cost
of production, there will probably
be couple of million bushels c. FRS.
wasted in this state.
Grocers' Side of It
ga remedy must be found for con-
dition which gives the producer one
cent and charges the consumer twen-
ty-five cents. We also have pears,
plums and peaches.
"Can your department of markets
| stimulate the demand for fruit by
giving the people of New York City
the facts?"
Peter H. Amor, president OF the
New York Retail Grocers' association,
expressed surprise when he Learned
that the upstate growers had SO
many apples ready for shipment. he
said that most of the apples which
have been received here this season
from upstate have been OF inferior
quality though some selected grades
are now coming in. He said that the
hand-picked apples sell at wholesale
for $3.50 to $500 for a bushel ham,
per of fifty pounds. These apples, he
said, retail at ten cents a pound or
three pounds for twenty-five cents.
He said that he did not know of any
section Of this city where these APP
Piles are offered at more than ten
cents pound.
Mr.. Amor said that he saw peddlers
at Columbus avenue and Tooth street
Saturday selling eight and ten pounds
of apples for twenty-five cents. These
were the average apples that come
| from upstate, he said, and are prob
ably those that fall from the tree
and deteriorate very rapidly. This
grade of apples, he said, can not be
handled in the stores, but can be sold
by peddlers who get rid of them in one
day.
The New York state apples now OF
the market, Mr.. Amor said, are no,
used very much for eating purposes
The eating apples, he said, come from
the west and are handled on a mar
gin of about one cent an apple. Tn.
margin is less on this class of fruit
he said, because there is virtually M
waste, as all this western fruit i!
standardized. In this state the apple!
on top are almost invariably supe
rior in quality to those on the lower
layers.
Has Enormous Crop
New York state, it is estimated, will
produce upward of one-fifth Of all tn,
apples grown in the United State.
this year. Arrivals of apples in thi
city from all sections, including points
outside of the state, up to last Tues
day, were 1882 cars, as compared will
1864 cars for the same period las
year. Notwithstanding the big sup
ply on the market, and the still great
er quantity awaiting shipment, tn
prices to the consumer continued yer,
high. An instance Of the high price
| to the consumer is shown by the state
ment of DR.. Robert Grimshaw tina
/ prior. to his sandwich men" demon
II stration last week apples that cost tn