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j>TadeB of windfalls, are sliced thin and dried, including skins, seeds and 

 (•ores — and inhabitants. They are packed in plain barrels. The poorer 

 classes here use larg-e quantities of these apples for makingr an apple wine 

 known as 'Piquette.' Last season one firm imported twelve thousand barrels 

 of apple chops, at a cost of seven cents per pound." Mr. Albion W. Tourgee, 

 Consul at Bordeaux, France, says in this connection, that in 1897 thirty-five 

 million gallons of this piquette were used, which increased to fifty million 

 g-allons in 1898: and as it takes one pound of chops to one gallon of piquette, 

 it means fifty million pounds of apple chops. And so are all other reports 

 of foreign states, many stating that instead of exporting, as heretofore, they 

 would have to import more and more each season. 



Latest advices from Berlin say: ''In view of the circular sent by the 

 German govei-nment to the chambers of commerce and other bodies, inquir- 

 ing as to the desirability of a duty on fruit, the Society of Hamburg Fruit 

 Dealers has adopted a resolution declaring emphatically that American fruit 

 is indispensable there, and protesting energetically against a duty." But 

 owing to the high freight and refrigerator charges from the Pacific Ckjast to 

 the Atlantic seaboard, we of the Pacific Northwest are somewhat handi- 

 oapped in European markets, which, however, is offset by our superior fruits 

 and the higher prices they command in these markets, espec-ially England. 

 Prices for apples ranged this fall as follows : 



Variety. 



Baldwins 

 lien Davis 

 Wiiiesaps 



London Market. Hamburg Market. 



r'-16 sliiirings per bbl 1.V2I marks per bbl. 



12-15 shillings per bbl 9-18 marks per bbl. 



...^ 11-13 shillings per bbl 10-12 marks per bbl. 



York Imperial lf5-is shillings per l)bl lii-17 marks per bbl. 



Kings ; l')-l!» shillings per bbl 15-17 marks per bbl. 



Northern Spy I 13-14 shillings per bbl 17-19 marks per bbl. 



Spitzenbergs 13-14 shillings per bbl 10-U marks per bbl. 



Now please note : Pacific Coast Newtowns. eleven shillings per box, 

 equal to thirty-three shillings ber barrel, — more than double the prices 

 realized for eastern apples. 



These figures will also form some guide to intending planters of apple or- 

 chards, as well as to shippers. The total shipment this fall, up to December 

 1. was sixty-eight thousand nine hundred and twenty barrels. 



PRUNES IN GERMANY. 

 Size. Italian prunes. Processed French prunes. 



-Ws to 40V ! IS to 20cents^ 



14^ cents. 



40's toSO's' , 15 to 17eents | 12 cents 



In France the prices range from sixteen to twenty cents. Small-sized 

 prunes should not be sent, as they come into competion with the home-grown 

 goods. But we have a market which is practically our own. When I became 

 convinced that the Pacific Northwest would soon grow more apples than 



