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Apple Reports. 



Messrs. James Adam, Son & Co., Liver- 

 pool, write : — 



Although still very early, the shipping 

 season may be said to have commenced in 

 earnest, a fair quantity, mostly from New 

 York, having already come to hand, as will 

 be seen from the figures given below. 

 Whether results have given satisfaction, how- 

 ever, is more than we can say, as owing to 

 the more or less faulty condition of the fruit 

 prices obtained have been very irregular, de- 

 fective barrels making from 7/ to 15/, and 

 tight up to 23/ per barrel. In many in- 

 stances the stock was very tender, and ought 

 never to have been shipped, especially at a 

 time when English-grown fruit is available ; 

 indeed, considering this, we have been sur- 

 prised that such high prices were paid for the 

 better samples of American, and are conse- 

 quently inclined to take a favourable view of 

 the out-look for winter stock. So far, of 

 course, it has been impossible to form any 

 opinion as to what the quality is likely to be, 

 but we hope, as reports indicate, it will be 

 good, and that shippers will exercise every 

 possible care in the selection of fruit for ex- 

 port, and keep back anything not likely to 

 carry in good condition. 



Messrs. Dickhcth & Sohn, Hamburg, 

 write : — 



In regard to the prospects for the sale of 

 apples from your side in our market, we can 

 only confirm what we said in our last circu- 

 lar, that is for table apples we shall have en- 

 tirely to depend upon shipments from your 

 country, and we can strongly advise you, to 

 make regular shipments of first grade best 

 keeping winter-apples. 



The Trade Bulletin, Montreal, says : — 

 The heavy shipments of common grades of 

 apples in different markets of the country has 

 had the effect of glutting most markets and 

 of forcing prices to a much lower scale. This 

 condition at market points has very materi- 

 ally changed the situation in the country. 

 Buyers are not anxious for stock and are 

 inclined to hold off, and farmers who have 

 been holding out for higher prices are now 

 offering fruit more or less freely at lower 

 figures, $2.25 being about the top price in a 

 general way for No. 1 stock with some very 

 good fruit to be had at $2 per barrel. The 

 market in this city is somewhat congested, 

 principally with lower grades of fruit, and 

 would propably be even more so had the 

 growers" in Jersey and Up-river points been 

 able to have sacured help to pick and send in 

 fruit, which in lack of these has had to go to 

 the evaporator and cider maker, or else 

 wasted. Stock in store and in transit has 



ripened very rapidly, owing to the warm 

 weather, and much fruit originally intended 

 for export has for this reason been thrown on 

 the market. The general range of prices here 

 is from $1.50 to $2 per barrel, although fancy 

 soft, table fruit commands a higher price. On 

 good, sound fruit, well packed, there is a 

 fairly good shipping trade and a moderately 

 good export demand, and on this quality of 

 stock the market is holding fairly steady. 



The New York Fruit Trade Journal says:— 

 Apples. — About all the apples that came 

 forward the past week for market purposes 

 were of such quality as would not do for 

 storage or export. The best of these met 

 slow sale while, very poor stock was hard to 

 move and accumulated. Prices quoted are 

 for fair to choice stock, while undergrades 

 were often &old as low as 50c. per barrel. The 

 following are quotations : 



King, per d-h, bbl $2 00 to $2 75 



Twenty Oz. d-h bbl 2 00 to 2 50 



Snow, d-h. bbl 2 00 to 2 75 



Ben Davis, d-h. bbl 1 75 to 2 00 



Fall or York Pip. d-h. bbl. . . . 1 50 to 2 00 



Baldwin, d-h. bbl 1 50 to 2 00 



Pelican, d-d. bbl 1 50 to 2 00 



Smith Cider, d-h. bbl 1 50 to 1 75 



Greening, d-h. bbl 1 25 to 1 75 



Open heads, bbl 50 to 1 00 



Crab apples, small, bbl 1 50 to 2 00 



Pears. — The demand was smaller than for 

 some time past. Even fancy Bartletts, which 

 are very scarce, met slow sale at $2 to $3 per 

 box. All other varieties were scarce, except 

 Keifers which were quite plentiful with prac- 

 tically no demand. They were quoted at 

 $1.50 to $2 per double-head barrel, but prices 

 were frequently shaded as demand required. 



Quinces. — Receipts of Quinces were quite 

 liberal, but fancy stock was scarce. Demand 

 was small at $2.50 to 3 per barrel for fancy 

 and $1.75 to 2 25 per barrel for other grades. 



Grapes. — Fancy table grapes were very 

 scarce and wanted. Offerings were poor and 

 hardly worth the price paid, 13 to 14c. per 

 basket. The bulk of grapes coming on the 

 market are for wine purposes, the frost hav- 

 ing rendered them unfit for table use. 

 Receipts were heavy and offerings were not 

 all disposed of. Prices were quoted at $25 

 to 28 per ton for Concord ; $25 to 30 per ton 

 for white ; $45 to 50 per ton for Delawares 

 and $25 to 28 per ton for Catawba. At the 

 end of the week these figures were shaded 

 considerably. 



And further regarding the grape situation : 



The grape market has been sadly congested 

 the past week. Owing to the heavy frost the 

 early part of the month, shipments of wine 

 grapes have been rushed very much and the 

 market has had more of this kind of stock 



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