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BETTER FRUIT 



November. 



Store Box Apples in Indiana 

 on Storage-in-Transit Basis 



We are advised that the storage-in -transit privi- 

 lege has been extended, effective October 27th, 

 to Central Freight Association territory. Our 

 modern fire proof facilities served by four trunk 

 line railroads, together with the sales service of 

 F. H. Simpson Fruit Company, are at your ser- 

 vice. Rates furnished upon application. 



Ebner Ice and Cold Storage Company 



VINCENNES, INDIANA 



Distribution of the New York Peach Crop 



[Editor's Note. — This article contains some 

 valuable and interesting data on the distribu- 

 tion of the New York peach crop, which every- 

 one should read who is interested in the dis- 

 tribution of the Northwestern apple crop, as it 

 indicates a very broad distribution for the 

 quantity marketed.] 



In the past the great problems of 

 peach-growers, as of those who grow 

 other agricultural products, have been 

 cultural in their essential character. 

 Attention to problems of distribution 

 have had to do with the opening up 

 of new regions of production — the ex- 

 pansion of the agricultural domain; 

 with developing means of transporta- 

 tion — railroad lines, steamboat service, 

 canals; and in developing centers of 

 consumption in habitable parts of 

 America. Until recent years, little has 

 been done in studying the commercial 

 disposition of agricultural products. 

 Now, however, studies are being made 

 everywhere of the distributive sys- 

 tems by which products get to market 

 and to determine what share of the 

 consumer's price should go to the pro- 

 ducer and what to the distributor. 

 Everywhere the importance of these 

 economic studies is recognized and no 

 producer sees more clearly than the 

 New York peach-grower the need of 

 improvement in handling products to 

 distribute risks, reduce risks, decrease 

 the number in the vast armies of mid- 

 dlemen and in every way improve de- 

 fective distribution. But these ques- 

 tions belong to specialists — econom- 

 ists. We wish here only to furnish a 

 few fundamental data which may be 

 of use to all concerned in the distri- 

 bution of the peach-crop. 



In the economic study of the peach- 

 industry in the state it is essential to 

 know the volume of the product in the 

 state; what proportion of the total dif- 



ferent sections produce; how the crop 

 is distributed in consumption; and the 

 movement of the peach-crop from 

 competing peach-states. These data 

 we undertake to furnish for the year 

 1915, a normal peach-year, taking the 

 figures from the transportation lines 

 handling peaches in New York so far 

 as obtainable. The volume of the 

 product for Western New York is 

 shown by figures taken from the New 

 York Central Railroad and the Lehigh 

 Valley Railroad. Peaches were shipped 

 from towns as follows: 



Cars 

 Adams Basin .... 26 



Albion 41 



Appleton 108 



Ashwood 19 



Barker 261 



Barnard 72 



Brice .- ,24 



Brighton 3 



Brockport 116 



Buffalo 2 



Burt 214 



Carlton 25 



C.avwood 16 



Charlotte 88 



Covert 21 



E. Williamson... 52 



Elberta 24 



Elm Grove 1 



Fancher 17 



Fruitland 48 



Gasport 108 



Geneva 19 



Greece 14 



Hamlin 216 



Hector 28 



Hilton 314 



Holley 27 



Junius 61 



Kendall 70 



Cars 



Lewiston 432 



Lockport 119 



Lodi 3 



Lindcnville 171 



Medina 76 



Middleport 36 



Millers 87 



Model City 156 



Morton 188 



North Boad 2 



Ontario 43 



Pittsford 2 



Bansomville 38 



Bochester 214 



Bushville 3 



Sodus 126 



Spencerport 91 



Trumansburg ... 11 



Union Hill 1 



Valois 5 



Walker 168 



Waterport 15 



Waverlv 1 



Webster 3 



Williamson 371 



Wilson 126 



Wolcott 15 



Total 4568 



These figures include plums, but the 

 shipment of plums in 1915 was so in- 

 significant as to be negligible and 

 more than offset by shipments of 

 peaches not accounted for by the car- 

 riers' names. In addition to the above 

 the American Express Company took 

 out of this territory about 175 cars, 

 mostly in less than car-lot shipments. 



No. Pet. 

 Cars of Crop 

 1628 36 



Accurate figures could not be ob- 

 tained from the Hudson River Valley 

 and Long Island shipping points as so 

 much of the fruit is shipped by water, 

 but basing the yield in 1915 on the 

 census reports of 1909 as to yields and 

 number of trees as compared with 

 similar data for these years from 

 Western New York, a rough approxi- 

 mation of the number of carloads in 

 Eastern New York is GOO. From re- 

 ports received from the chief Hudson 

 River navigation lines it would seem 

 that they probably carried about one 

 hundred carloads. 



Practically all of the 600 carloads 

 grown in Eastern New York were con- 

 signed to New York City or nearby 

 towns. From the above table we may 

 assume that about 5000 carloads were 

 produced in the rest of the state and 

 we are fortunate in having a record 

 as to where 4419 of these were con- 

 signed. The New York Central Rail- 

 road distributed the number of car- 

 loads named as follows: 



No. 

 Destination Towns 



Buffalo and points west, 



including Pittsburg... 96 

 Pennsylvania and points 



south of Newberry^Jct. 72 

 Points east of Albany. . . 25 

 Points north of New 



York City 145 



New York City 1 



339 



Analyzing these figures we find that 

 4,419 carloads reached 339 destina- 

 tions grouped as follows: 9 cities took 

 2,378 cars, over one-half of the crop; 

 21 cities took 3,018 cars, two-thirds of 

 the crop; 59 cities took from 4 to 10 



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E.Shelley Morgan 



NORTH WESTERN MANA GER 



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 HOURS-STOCK LABELS FOR PEARS, 

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