1068 THE FRUIT INDUSTRY IN NEW YORK STATE 



MARKET CONDITIONS 



The 1915 season showed a market in all great cities filled t 

 overflowing. Ruinous prices ruled throughout the season. Thirty 

 years ago New Jersey lands were being set to peaches to such ex- 

 tent that many areas promised to be simply great peach plantations, 

 but low prices and particularly the spread of scale, yellows, and 

 other troubles wiped out the industry. Yellows and little peach 

 certainly offset new plantings now. 



Production costs in the southern end of the Hudson Valley are 

 probably as low as anywhere north of Delaware. The transporta- 

 tion is now almost universally by motor truck and is cheaper and 

 more satisfactory than any rail service. Notwithstanding these 

 advantages only a select few of the varieties can be grown at any 

 considerable profit with prices at the level of the past season. New 

 varieties may and probably will displace most of the kinds de- 

 scribed in this account, and particularly would firm, large yellow, 

 freestone kinds find places in the early season. 





