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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



September, 1913 



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there will be no appreciable lowering 

 of prices. 



Last year the English merchants for tfie 

 first time in several years did not advance 

 money to local buyers. Apparently they are 

 adhf'ring to this resolution this year. The 

 itinerent buyer is, however, abroad in ''"■■ 

 land. We have reports of these bu: 

 offering- 75 cents per barrel on the trr 

 This, of course, is an absurdly low price. 

 There is absolutely no reason why every 

 apple in Canada should not be sold this 

 year at a price that would bring back to 

 the grower at least $1.25 per barrel on the 

 tree. On the other hand, we find reports 

 of some independent cooperative associa- 

 tions asking $3.50 per barrel for No. 1 

 Spies. It is quite as absurd for the growei 

 to accept so small a price for his apples as 

 to leave him no profit as to ask so large a 

 price that the merchant who handles his 

 fruit will have no profit. 



The present market conditions are _ ex- 

 tremely critical. On two or three occasion; 

 we have had within the last decade some- 

 what similar conditions, and in each cas« 

 very grave mistakes have been made ir 

 placing the fruit upon the market. In 191( 

 manv dealers, -noting the short crop, wem 

 into the field eariy in the season, paid fairlj 

 high prices to those who knew the marke' 

 conditions, and paid extremely low price! 

 to the large majority who knew nothint 

 about the market conditions, and in al 

 cases thev stored the apples, and when tbi 

 fruit was all in the hands of the dealers 

 immediately it was held for high prices. / 

 single incident mil show the results. 



A large retail merchant in an easten 

 citv offered a dealer $3.50 per barrel for : 

 verv fine line of Northern Spy apples. Thi 

 was refused about the middle of November 

 About the first of December, following i 

 slump in prices in the British market, thi 

 dealer offered the merchant these apple 

 at the dealer's original price of $3.50 pe 

 barrel. The dealer, however, refused. Fou 

 weeks later, in January-, the apples wer 

 offered at $2.75 to the merchant, who re 

 fused them absolutely at any price, givini 

 as his excuse that his customers were no 

 callinfr for apples, considering them mucl 

 too expensive, and even though the pric 

 were reduced to a reasonable one, he dii 

 not consider the chances for sale good 

 Later these apples were sold at public auc 

 tion at $2.50 per barrel. 



Any prices that may be given yet ar 

 purely speculative, but it is safe to say tha 

 no differences in the crop that are likely t 

 take place, whether it is an increase or 

 decrease from the present prospects, ar 

 likely to change the price either above o 

 below the normal price obtained as a' 

 average over several years. — Report o 

 Dominion Fruit Division, A. McNeill 

 Chief. 



Items of Interest 



According to the latest report of th 

 Dominion Fruit Division cooper's stock i 

 coing to be both scarce and high priced 

 Barrels are being bought quite freely at 5 

 cents apiece, and only a few of those wh 

 have purchased stock can get the materia 

 alone. The package this year will cost no 

 less than one-third the value of the frui 

 on the tree. This puts the grower wh 

 packs his own fruft and all cooperativ 

 associations in the position of merchant 

 in coopers' stock and barrels, and if coin 

 petition becomes keen, as it is likely to be 

 come in the near future, those who hav 

 the package end of the apple business th 

 best under control will be the most likel; 

 to succeed. 



