May, 1909 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



115 



same time in Liverpool. You will remem- 

 ber that last September most of the apples 

 picked and shipped landed in England in 

 poor, wasty condition. These barrelled 

 apples were no better than the usual ship- 

 ments while my boxes landed in good con- 

 dition and brought — King, 8s. 3d. ; Ribston, 

 7s. 9d. ; Fallawater, 7s. 6d. ; Stark, 68. 6d. 

 (These Starks were too green.) This proves 

 that papered apples in boxes will carry 

 better than barrelled apples. 



Now as to winter apples, — Baldwins, 

 Greenings and Ben. Davis. These were 

 packed and piled in my storehouse in box- 

 es in the same way and sorted, wrapped 

 and tiered in boxes several days afterwards 

 and shipped in ordinary cars to St. John, 

 N.B., and placed there in cold storage on 

 dates Oct. 22, Nov. 5 and Nov. 9, '08. I went 

 to St. John in the beginning of December 

 and saw that cold storage filled with bar- 

 relled apples from cellar to roof, several 

 floors, with about 40,000 barrels and a few 

 boxes besides mine. The temperature was 

 kept at about freezing point. I then went 

 to Liverpool on the Empress of Ireland. 



With the exception of a few boxes sold 

 in London I sold my whole crop in Liver- 

 pool at auction by a well-known firm. 

 They received as high as 8s. 6d for Bald- 

 wins, 7s. 3d. for R. I. Greenings and 7s. 

 for Ben Davis a box. These apples were 

 shipped from St. John in small lots on Jan. 

 14 and 28 and Feb. 19 and 26. The last 

 of them were sold in Liverpool on March 

 24, all Baldwins, at 8s. 6d. a box. 



These apples tonped the market for same 

 variety and opened up as good as those from 

 anywhere else. My boxes contained 40 

 pounds of apples as against 140 to 150 

 pounds in Canadian barrels. 



The only other apples selling at a higher 

 price were the Oregon Newtowns. Most of 

 the California and Oregon boxes were bet- 



ter packed than mine. I hope they will not 

 be so next year for I shall endeavor to equal 

 their packing. 



The point I want to make here is that 

 my Elgin apples reached that market in 

 as good condition as any apples offered 

 there for sale and brought as high a price 

 as anything of the same variety sold there 

 in March. They were sold in their origin- 

 al wrapping and package, as packed at my 

 orchard and not repacked in the cold stor- 

 age as is usual with barrelled apples. 



This does not bear out Chief McNeill's 

 contentions in regard to the inferiority of 

 Lake Erie apples. I can emphatically back 

 J. E. Johnson, of Simcoe, in his claim that 

 there are no better apples raised anywhere 

 in the world than right here on Lake Erie. 

 We have high colored apples and the Bri- 

 tish prefer high color. We have as good 

 flavor as anywhere and cold storage will 

 keep our apples as good as those from any- 

 where else. I must therefore take exception 

 to the article that appeared in that Wes- 

 tern Ontario paper. 



The Oregon Newtowns sold at 12s. a box 

 and upwards for their larger sizes. We 

 grow apples here fully equal to that apple 

 but we have not delivered them to that mar- 

 ket with the same care that the Oregon 

 people do. It is up to our Ontario grow- 

 ers to pack and deliver their fruit to 

 the British markets in as good condition 

 as the Hood River growers do. 



It will not do to pack equally as well and 

 send there on consignment to be sold to the 

 highest bidder. I have discovered a better 

 plan than that. In that case, you have to 

 accept what they choose to give but can 

 not control the price. The better plan is to 

 be there and set your price. In the next 

 issue of The Canadian Horticultubist I 

 shall refer to this plan at further length. — 

 J. A. Webster, Sparta, Ont. 



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