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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



of unloading will depend upon the construc- 

 tion of the storage house. 



When there comes a hot fall, like that just 

 passed, when it hardly froze at all in Novem- 

 ber, the anxious orchardist longs for cold 

 storage. And where fruit is perfect and in- 

 tended for the late market and the cold stor- 

 age complete, then it ought to be satisfac- 

 ory. The charge for cold storage is com- 

 monly forty to fifty cents per barrel for the 

 season to May i. Freight, switoh charges, 

 shrinkage and unpacking will commonly 

 make the cost about seventy-five cents per 

 barrel. 



Thrice and four times happy is the apple 

 man whose fruit is jiear enough to a good 

 market so that he can sell it in person, or by 

 proxy, from his own wagon. Then every- 

 thing goes at some price — culls, windfalls, 

 seconds, and firsts. He pays neither freight 

 nor commission. Most orchardists have 

 harder ways of making sales. Some are 

 harder than others, but the hardest of all is 

 where the buyer is furnished the apples in 

 piles for him to paw over at his leisure and 



select or reject according to his fancy. 

 Apple buyers of that variety should be shown 

 the door that the lightning-rod peddlers go 

 out. Before negotiations for a crop of 

 apples are concluded, a perfect understand- 

 ing should be reduced to writing, specifying 

 what is to go and what is to be thrown out. 

 As a final word, many orchardists practice 

 a false economy in saving their fruit at a loss. 

 Whenever cider apples or evaporated apples 

 are going at les§ than they can be delivered 

 for with hired labor, the rot process of dis- 

 position should be introduced, except that 

 where the farmer himself or his minor child- 

 ren have no other gainful employment, then 

 the farmer and his kids will find even half 

 wages the same as something found. But 

 when people have paying jobs, their cider 

 apples at twelve cents per hundred delivered 

 on the cars or their evaporator apples de- 

 livered at the factory for ten cents per bushel 

 will bring them nothing for their fruit and 

 less than cost for their labors. 



Edwin T.wlor, 

 Before Kansas Agricultural Society, 



THE APPLE MARKET. 



The Manchester Fruit Brokers write as 

 follows : 



Contrary to the expectation of many 

 people the English apple crop now promises 

 to turn out a fair yield in quantity and very 

 good in quality. Advices from the continent 

 of Europe are mostly to the eflfect that there 

 is not likely to be a very large surplus there 

 for export, but we consider that even here 

 the estimates are likely to be exceeded be- 

 cause the weather prevailing on this side 

 now is very favorable to the growth of the 

 winter varieties. It is at any rate certain 

 that for the next two months home and con- 

 tinental srrowers will be able to send in to 



market very considerable quantities of 

 apples, and, as other fruits are likely to be 

 both plentiful and cheap, we do not consider 

 that prices within the period named will run 

 above last year's values. 



Advices from Spain indicate that the crop- 

 of oranges this year will be an enormous 

 one and, as this fruit will compete strongly 

 with the sale of apples from the early part 

 of November, we warn packers and shippers 

 in Canada not to pay extreme prices. It 

 must be remembered thatthe consumption of 

 apples here falls off greatly when prices run. 

 bevond a reasonable limit. 



