APPLE PRICES ARE NOT SATISFACTORY 



So far this season growers are dissatisfied, 

 and with reason, at the prices generally being 

 paid for apples. For the best winter stock in 

 the large producing sections 75 cents to $1 per 

 barrel is being paid quite generally, and in 

 some oases even higher. At this figure sales 

 are being made freely. In most sections, how- 

 ever, prices range from 50 to 60 and 75 cents, 

 and are causing great dissatisfaction. Where 

 growers have facilities for holding their crops, 

 many are doing so in the confident belief that 

 prices will advance considerably as soon as the 

 first rush of stock and the English apples are 

 over. Where growers are unable to store 

 their apples large quantities are going to 

 waste. In a number of districts buyers seem 

 to have reached an understanding that they will 

 not invade each other's territory and thus they 

 are able to keep down prices. 



In the United States, according to the ex- 

 haustive crop enquiries made by American 

 Agriculturist, up to the third week in October 

 the deadlock between growers and buyers re- 

 mained practically unbroken. Big operators 

 in New York and the east generally are inclined 

 to set their faces as flint at anything above $1 

 a barrel, package included. Barrels are high 

 in price, and have been difficult to get, and to 

 this must be added cost of picking. We have 

 been unable to learn of any general trading at 

 better than $1.25 for such standard varieties as 

 Greening, Baldwin, etc., in the central states. 



The following special crop reports, secured 



by The Horticulturist, will give a pretty good 

 idea of conditions generally throughout On- 

 tario : 



ONTARIO COUNTY. 



Two- thirds of the apple crop has been bought 

 for 50 to 75 cents per barrel. The latter figure 

 is where the grower picks the fruit, which 

 means 60 cents on the tree, as 15 cents is what 

 is paid for picking. I agree with The Horti- 

 culturist that buyers could well afford to pay 

 $1 for all good winter apples. I have just re- 

 ceived a very complete report of sales in Europe, 

 and deducting all costs, insurance, etc., I fail to 

 see why dealers are not more liberal in their 

 prices. Some fine growers are packing their 

 own fruit and storing, but the majority are 

 anxious to get rid of their fruit for almost any 

 price, as they have no facilities for storing. 

 Cooperation on the part of fruit growers would 

 greatly assist them. — (R. L. Huggard. 



The price opened at 50 cents per barrel on the 

 trees, the farmer boarding the men and draw- 

 ing the apples to the station. Red apples are 

 now selling at 75 cents, and one man got 90 

 cents per barrel on the tree. These prices are 

 for both No. 1 and No. 2. The apples, with 

 very few exceptions, are sold. — (John Rice. 



An estimated crop of 700 barrels sold for $525 

 cash, the buyer to do all barrelling, the seller 

 to deliver to the depot. This was equal to 71 

 cents per barrel. In another instance a buyer 

 bought an orchard at 75 cents per barrel, but 

 in packing took only XXX of any sort, and only 



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