AUSTRALIA A GOOD MARKET 

 APPLES. 



FOR CANADIAN 



UR readers will remember 

 that in 1895 the Board of 

 Control of our fruit experi- 

 mental work forwarded one hundred 

 and fifteen cases of Canadian apples to 

 Sidney, N. S. W., via Vancouver. They 

 reached their destination in December, 

 and were looked after by Mr. J. S. 

 Larke, Dominion agent there. Many 

 of them were ruined in carriage, through 

 the extreme heat of the tropics, but 

 those which did arrive in good condi- 

 tion sold extremely well. Some cases 

 of Cranberry Pippins bring about $3.75 

 per case of about one bushel. 



During the past season a grower 

 in Preston, Ont., forwarded a small 

 shipment of nine cases for experiment, 

 a part of which carried safely and 

 sold for the splendid price of $4 30 per 

 case ! in a season when apples could 

 scarcely be given away in our own 

 markets. 



We append Mr. Larke's report on 

 these apples, which is really a portion of 

 his report to the Minister of Agriculture 

 for the Dominion. 



Apples. 



I had been advised that a shipment 

 of apples might be forwarded from 

 Ontario as was done last year. If a 

 large quantity were sent I deemed it 

 advisable that they should be placed in 

 cool storage, and placed gradually on 

 the market only as fast as it could take 

 them at good prices, and had arranged 

 for securing the storage in case it were 

 required. None came to my order, but 

 two parcels were sent out by the last 

 steamer. One of nine cases was sent 

 to Mr. F. Winter, who sold those for- 

 warded me last year. They were sent 

 by friends as a gift rather than as a 



business venture; but Mr. \\ inter treated 

 them as a regular consignment. They 

 were a varied lot, consisting of Spys, 

 Snow apples, Baldwins, Russets, and a 

 few " Seek No Furthers." Three cases 

 had been nicely assorted, but the other 

 six had been more hurriedly got together 

 and packed They were wrapped half 

 in Manilla wrapping paper, the balance 

 in pieces of newspapers. They were 

 shipped from Preston on the 21st of 

 October, left Vancouver on the loth of 

 November, and arrived here on the 

 evening of Dec. 4th. They were stowed 

 below decks as was the case last year. 

 The nine cases yielded six of good fruit 

 and three of defective. The Snows 

 carried better than any other variety, 

 there being but thirty-seven defective 

 apples — eleven decayed and twenty-si.x 

 with some spots — in two hundred and 

 sixty-six apples. The Northern Spys 

 were in the worst condition, and decayed 

 more rapidly after being picked over. 

 In order to make full cases we had to 

 mix the varieties, and sell as quickly as 

 possible. Five cases he sold at 17/6 

 per case, a sixth of equal value he 

 retained or gave to friends. The results 

 were as follows : — 



6 Cases @ 17/6 £5 5 

 3 Cases ©1/ 3 



£5 8 



EXPK.SDITl'RE. 



Freight @ 4/1 per case. .£1 16 9 



Wharfage 9 



Cat tage 8 



Picking Over .10 



CommissioQ 7 6 



£2 IS 



Balance £•_' 10 



This netted the Canadian shipper ' 

 Si -35 per case in Preston. The e.v 

 penses were higher than they would 

 have been in a commercial shipment. 

 The cartage would have been i '6 



