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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



September, 191 1 



j. d. McGregor & co. 



64 Waller Street Phone 3062 



OTTAWA, ONT. 



Fruit Brokers and Com- 

 mission Merchants 



YOUR CONSIGNMENTS 

 = SOLICITED . 



No quantity too great or small for 

 us to handle. We are a strictly Com- 

 mission House, and never have any 

 bought goods to put in competition 

 with your consignment. Shipping 

 Stamps furnished on application. 



References : Our Shippers all over 

 Western Ontario, The North Crown 

 Bank, Ottawa, or the Union Bank, 

 Grimsby, Ont. 



- Bank Money Orders or Cheques pay- 

 able at par mailed to all our Patrons 

 every Monday. 



j, d. McGregor, manager 



Notes on Britain's Apple Markets 



Grant S. Peart, Burlington, Ont. 



Autumn coming in the near future, it is 

 again time for apple growers and dealers 

 to study the markets. It is probable that 

 some of Canada's apples will be sold on 

 British markets this season as of yore. A 

 little discussion on these markets may then 

 not be out of place. 



The following are a few conclusions taken 

 from an accumulation of opinions that have 

 resulted through experience of British and 

 Canadian apple men on Britain's apple 

 markets. These I had the good fortune to 

 collect during the past winter. Readers 

 must remember, however, that the best of 

 information on the subject of markets is 

 misleading sometimes. The object of this 

 article is to give a line of ideas (which may 

 or may not be facts) but which will prob- 

 ably be of interest to Canadian shippers. 



The British consumer distinctly demands 

 three classes of apples, the dessert type for 

 a limited fancy trade; No. 1, cooking and 

 dessert apples for the general trade and 

 large quantities of inferior stock. No. 2's, 

 for culinary purposes alone. With refer- 

 ence to varieties of a strictly dessert type, 

 say Mcintosh and Fameuse, only the 

 "Fancy" and "No. 1" grades should be ex- 

 ported. The inferior surplus can be mar- 

 keted at home to better advantage. The 

 same remarks may be said to apply to No. 

 3 stock of all other varieties. When placed 

 on these markets thev tend to depreciate 

 the values of higher grades of fruit and to 

 hurt rather than build up our apple reputa- 

 tion. The demand for our standard vari- 

 eties is practically unlimited, and manv 

 other kinds are accepted, sometimes at 

 good prices, but only when required for a 



special trade or at a time when there is a 

 shortage in standards. 



Six apple shippers, representing different 

 parts of Ontario, when asked to name the 

 best paying varieties of apples, taking one 

 year with another from the exporter's point 

 of view, gave the following list. The vari- 

 eties given are placed approximately in the 

 order of their selling value : 



Four exporters named the King, three the 

 Snow, one the Mcintosh, five the Spy, one 

 the Ribston, all the Baldwin, four the G. 

 Russet, all the R. I. Greening, three the 

 Stark and one the Ben uavis. 



Onlv apples of a fancy and No. 1 grade 

 should be packed in boxes. Relative net 

 prices received by shippers, for No. 2's, 

 per box and barrel, are about the same. 

 While as a general rule better sales are 

 accounted for high grade fruit in boxes 

 when free from competition with inferior 

 grades in boxes. 



The dessert trade demands apples of me- 

 dium size. Such fruit is retailed by the 

 number, so much a dozen, or by weight, so 

 many to the pound. Thus the handling of 

 very large apples reduces the retail mer- 

 chant's profit and renders him a less ready 

 customer. With the staple sorts apples 

 medium to large in size are desired. 



It is extremely difficult to determine the 

 individual markets to which various sorts 

 of apples should be shipped to secure the 

 best returns. The markets change from day 

 to day according to supply and demand, 

 so that a variety that goes begging in Glas- 

 gow might be somewhat eagerly sought 

 after in London, while a week later the 

 positions may be reversed. In a general 



R. & W. Davidson 



LIMIT 



9 Virginia St., GLASGOW 



LIMITED 



Principal Branches : 



49 Tooley St., London, S.E. 

 1 9 Mathew St., Liverpool 



Also at : 



MANCHESTER, LEEDS, BIRMING- 

 HAM, BRISTOL, NEWCASTLE-ON- 

 TYNE, and LEITH 



Consignments of Canadian Apples, selected 

 winter varieties, in boxes, distributed direct to 

 buyers — not auctioned 



- Correspondence Invited 



APPLE BARRELS 



TV /E can furnish you with 

 Staves, Hoops and 

 Heading of the Best Quality 

 for making Barrels, or arrange 

 with our cooper friends to 

 supply you with the Barrels 

 ready for Packing. €JA11 our 

 slock is standard grade, war- 

 ranted up to the requirements 

 of the Fruit Department. 



The Sutherland -Innes Co. 



■' = LIMITED = 



CHATHAM, 



ONTARIO 



