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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIS2 . 



Ask your principal for instructions as to price to 

 be paid for seconds where only firsts have been 

 ])urchased. It is not compulsory to pack a second 

 grade but a season like this it may pay if a 

 satisfactory price can be arranged between grower 

 and purchasar. 



Show your best judgment in all things. 



DISPUTES. 



In case of disputes with grower have a copy of 

 " Fruit Packing Act " at all times and if he will 

 not let you p ick accordingly notify your principal. 



The Apple Market. 



Canadian growers who are fortunate enough 

 to have a crop of apples are quite in fortune 

 this season, and need not trouble to export 

 them, for the buyers will take them at their 

 doors at $3.00 and $4.00 a barrel according 

 to The Guide. 



W. N. White, who has just returned from 

 a trip through the Canadian apple sections, 

 reports things "on the jump" there. 

 Ontario, he figures, will turn out from 

 200,000 to 250,000 barrels. By no means 

 all of this crop will go to Great Britain, as 

 many of the apples — particularly the North- 

 ern Spys — have been bought by American 

 operators to go into cold store. In fact 

 nearly all the crop is already bought up, the 

 representatives of some Liverpool houses 

 and such Canadian firms as Hart & Tuck- 

 well, John Barry & Sons and the Peterson 

 Bros, being particularly active. " Bidding 

 is very active," said Mr. White, " and 

 prices high. For fruit on the trees $3.00 is 

 an average price and 1 saw one orchard of 

 Nonpareils sold for $3.75. Nova Scotia, 

 which will not exceed 250,000 barrels, is also 

 a scene of great activity." 



Mr. White predicts that America's total 

 export of apples to Europe this season — 

 outside of box apples from Oregon and 

 California — will range between 550,000 and 

 600,000 barrels and will in no case, however 

 high prices go on the other side, exceed the 

 latter figure, so small is our exportable 

 surplus this season. The demand from 

 Europe should be very keen, as not only is 

 England short of fruit, but so too are 



Germany and Holland. The latter country 

 is usually a large exporter of apples to 

 Eng"land, but mail advices this week say 

 that her crop is so short and her domestic 

 market so high that she will have nothing 

 to ship to England. Altogether it looks as 

 if The Ciuide's prediction that before long 

 " the fancy American apple would be at a 

 record breaking premium in the great marts 

 of London, Liverpool, Glasgow and Ham- 

 burg and so yet bring a chance this season 

 for all hands to make some money in the 

 apple export business," would come true in 

 every particular. 



" The remarkable shortage in apples con- 

 tinues," says the American Agriculturist, 

 " the chief topic in the fruit trade, advices 

 reaching the American Ag-riculturist every day 

 show further intensification of the heavy 

 losses. President Cupp, of the Mississippi 

 Valley Apple-Growers' Association writes 

 us under date of Oct. i that ' now, at time 

 of picking, prospects are for only 20 per cent, 

 of a crop, and poor at that.' One of the larg- 

 est commercial orchards in Nebraska sho.ws 

 up not more than 4 per cent, of a crop, 

 others in that state somewhat better. Con- 

 ditions in Michigan and eastward are much 

 the same. The western half of New York 

 has been further damaged by heavy wind 

 storms. The crop in Ontario is probably 

 the smallest on record. General shortages 

 are the rule in Pennsylvania and New Eng- 

 land. Connecticut farmers are now getting 

 S4 per barrel for choice fruit.' 



Liverpool, Oct. 16th. 



Messrs. Woodall cable — " Fair demand. 

 Nova Scotians i6s. to igs. 6d. ; others 13s. 

 to igs. No Canadians selling to-day. 



Messrs. Simons, Shuttleworth & Co., 

 Liverpool, cable the apple market as follows : 

 " Sound parcels of apples are in strong 

 demand, and meet with a ready sale at our 

 quotations. Receipts as a rule are landing 

 in bad order. The following quotations are 



