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EXPERIMENTAL FAEUS 



4-5 EDWARD Vil., A. 1905 



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Destination and Route. 



Name 



of 



Steamer. 



Namo 



of 



Variety. 



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Ang. 



Sept. 



20 Belfasti-ia Liverpool (cold storage) 



27 



27 



14 

 14 



14 

 14 



18 

 18 

 29 

 29 



Belfast (direct) . 



Dublin (direct) . . 



II II . . 



Glasgow (direct) 



SO Belfast (direct) . 

 30 



Dominion. . 

 Vancouver. 



Bray Head 



Inishowen Head 



n 



Parthenia. 



Dunmore Head. 



Duchess 



II 



Charlamoflf 

 (Pointed Pipka) 

 Antonovka .... 



Anis 



Dudley 



Winter Stripe. . 

 McMahon 



White.. 

 Wealthy 



II ..... 



II 



Patten's 



Greening.. 



Wealthy , 



McMahon 



White.. 



s. d. 



$ cts. 



100, 2 



55' 2 



i 



70, 3 



46| 1 



241 2 



12] 2 



12; 2 



70J 

 'SOl 



4 

 3 

 30! 5 



10 



20 



«3 

 g 



.$ cts. 



66 79 



31 28 



3 



35 48 

 12 55 



The following quotations from letters received from the consignees show the 

 condition in which the fruit arrived, and give the criticisms made upon it. These 

 are published for the guidance of fruit growers in the future. It is very satisfactory 

 tc know that no complaints were made with regard to the packing of the fruit nor of 

 the condition in which it arrived. 



REPORT OF FIRST SHIPJIEXT OF DUCHESS APPLES IN CX)LD STORAGE TO BELFAST, IRELA>sT>. 



'Belfast, September 7, 1904. 



' I have received the 100 boxes of Duchess apples this week, and the quality of the 

 apples is rather disappointing, ao it is not good enough for eating, and for cooking, 

 jbuyers prefer our own Irish apples which are an exceptionally good crop this year and 

 very cheap. Had they been a nice good keeping eating apple and a good colour, I could 

 have sold them, I thinlv, very well. They are certainly very well put up and the pack- 

 ing very good, in fact, one of the largest buyers told me he would take the whole of 

 the apples if they had been suitable, but he would not take a box when he saw them. 

 He said he was quite prepared to pay me 4d. for as many of the empty boxes as I could 

 get him, but the apples to him were useless, as they would not suit his customers at 

 all. ^Vliat we want is a nice dessert apple. We have plenty of the cooking grade 

 here- There was only one buyer that would make me an offer at all. and the best he 

 would make me was 2s. per box ex quay.' 



(Signed) 'HUGH GORDOX.' 



EXTRACT FROM REPORT OF SECOND SHIPMENT (dUCHESS AND CHARLAMOFF). 



Belfast, September 14, 1904. 



* The second consignm,ent of apples has arrived, and as requested, I have examined 

 the boxes and notice the way you have them packed. They are certainly very well 

 put up, but some of the largest fruit merchants here state that they are the wrong 

 kind of apples (they were Duchess and Charlaraoff) you are shipping, as they will 



