MARKETING CHERRIES 



0. K. SCOON, GENEVA, N. Y. 



" Study the demand of your market " is 

 as good a rule in deciding what varieties of 

 cherries to plant as it is in buying dry goods 

 or shoes. The canners do not, as a general 

 thing, buy the red, sweet cherries : they pay 

 a good price for white ones. On account of 

 their susceptibility to rot during rainy, h< 

 weather at ripening period, however, tin 

 are not in as high favor with growers as tl 

 hard-fleshed red varieties. Among the* 



Windsor and Schmidt's are probably the best in size and goo< 

 shipping qualities. They ripen just before the sour varieties, a: 

 so extend the season for picking and marketing, enabling tl 

 grower to arrange for the same help and give continuoi 

 employment. 



THREE DESIRABLE VARIETIES 



The three principal varieties of sour cherries are Early Kiel 

 mond, Montmorency, and English Morello, named in the order of 

 ripening. Early Richmond is not the equal of the other two in 

 that it is smaller, has a large pit, and thin, watery flesh ; but it 

 comes at a season when no other sour cherry is in market and 

 has considerable demand on that account. Montmorency is the 

 popular cherry. More tons of this than of all other varieties 

 combined are put on all markets and the canners use it almost ex- 

 clusively. 



INCREASED PLANTINGS CALL FOR NEW MARKETS 



Until the last two or three years the canning factories were 

 able to use all the sour cherries offered for sale, but the plantings 

 have been so largely increased in recent years that new markets 

 must be found and the general use extended. This seems to be 

 the condition of all kinds of fruit at the present time; and 



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