February, 1900. 
AMERICAN FRUIT 
AND VEGETABLE JOURNAL 
splendid varieties. We always have advo- 
cated the green varieties, particular!) (tie* 
two mentioned, nod believe the time will 
come tvhen they w ill he more goto rn Im- 
planted for market and houm use - fa ml 
er's Voice. 
No. no, Brother Burke, you are altogether 
wrong. Yellow will do os a color ror chk 
keu’s legs, lemons and pumpkins, while 
green will be suited to many vegetables, 
leaves and some '•fellers' who ltd to run a 
farm or orchard, but red why that U the 
only color wilh which to point a maiden'* 
cheeks, or add the finishing touche* to an 
apple. 
When Mother Eve was a lively damsel of 
It! gushing rammers, the cbtel aUr.ttllou 
of the neighborhood, she went out lu the 
orchard, when the red tinge of morning 
light was shed over all, and bit one nf those 
apples that tickled her most— Iiunttsiu- 
man’s Favorite. Of eontse that was whin 
She wanted, but (he apple blushed surlt a 
deep crimson, Just like one of the tndglilmr 
boys, that she called It after that, Ben Pa- 
vis. As she It hoik* on past a Hill. I -I- 
and she came to a Orecnlug, which si,.' n|r-o 
bit; but it turned as red ns 11 bet-t <0 *he 
called that after one of her best fellows lu 
the neighborhood. .Johnathan. A tree 
across the way said, If you wanl the Iasi. 
Seek-no-further, but Its neighbor said 
there's Nonesuch lu the orchard as 1 have. 
Just then through tlic leaves she saw a Spy 
and started to run, and fell exhausted oil 
Adam's apple; when she slowly awoke she 
gave him her Favorite, which they both 
agreed should be Had Winter pear a man. 
Truly, red is the only real color for an an- 
ple. 
United States Apple Crop. 
For past six years: 
Year— ' Barrels. 
1S94 fw.can.tinn 
iso-. 
1890 
1897 
11,537.900 
ISOS 
- - - 28.570,000 
1899 
In very marked contrast are the large 
crops of 1S9J, '95 and 'DC with the verv 
sliort crops of ISO?, 'OS and '99 in the 
years when they were so plentiful, mnnv 
were shipped and sold in Europe. Then, 
too, so much more are they used at home 
when ohenper. 
ocean freights have keen unusually high, 
owing to the temporary scarcity of Vessel*, 
tl ltd rates now an unsullied The charge* 
In Liverpool, n» a representative foreign 
market, ar • H in Id cent* a barrel, inelud 
)ng dockage. liiHuranee, advertising *atn 
pllng and labor In handling. In addition to 
this Is 5 per cent enitiinUslon on sales. 
Take, for example, n ear load of apple* 
which will sell in Liverpool market at tfi 
shillings, e.jual to about $3.S5 per barrel, 
subtract rrom this the per cent comtnl- 
slon 19 lu 20 cents, nrul say 15 .vnts for 
petty expenses, a total of it." rents, repre- 
senting the charges fur selling a bnrrel of 
apples after reaching the dork at that city. 
Calculating in with these charges the act an 
freight and expense at New York, Boston 
or Halifax loading docks, and the Interior 
rub freight, nnd It Is not difficult 
to arrive at Just what the net 
return should be for a shipper ou 
Type* of Apple*. 
Spy. 
ID rXJITttll 
1 W;l.< rrrj 
*»f appHirmi 
m*r»* Si 
\\ . 9 c<ni-r, ami Onbir 
ling .1 group nf applet 
t.-twe.-n them. Tb 
•v. Warmer, and Onta 
ti-ivntly, 
similarity 
cse larle- 
irto. I dr* 
not snow that any one has ever 
• lie Idea that then 1 was n close rel 
between Spy nnd Wag, lo r. Th 
marked reaemWnnoe, however, in 
rlor Characteristic* and atan in 11 
advanced 
latlonahlp 
nf tti»* fruit 
trWA 3T4* Vi 
The bearing habit 
try different, however, 
nf the trees, but the 
thn growth 
nthpf tin 
and also 
in both, n.i 
-1 which is m irK.-.JIy [ 
tiudy. that they are 1 
imminent 
Htth very 
inn<*b Wiiiji 
nr lit 
ing In llnvor when *rn 
1 trees which U„a,. n of 
nnetl. 
wii In the 
Uriently pr 
been stif* 
The reset 
and Wngen 
iiblauee of the Omari 
a b> Spy 
1 - Hi ennot- 
European Market for Apples. 
Methods of exporting apple* ami distril, 
utlng them on the other side hate not 
changed materially in the last few sea son* 
While apples are exported through regu 
lar dealers at seaboard pities, some r.-rv 
successful shipments otv each season run tie 
direct l.y the growers. The fruit should 
be packed lu clean packages, using nuiv 
No. 1 to choice apple*. Tin rust of barrel 
and labor Involved is ot course the same 
while net result* arc very much limn' in 
favor of the merchantable fruit. A ear 
load Of apples, get erally Hid to 175 barrel,*, 
may he shipped direct to the steamer elms 
en for export to England or ciuitlitcutnl 
market, stored in the n.ol.-t p:a>c on tlm 
ocean steamer, the fruit I* gem-, ally land 
ed In foreign pml in about f ti days’ ocean 
voyage. The charge* at pair r.r *|i!p.ueiii 
Include cartage or switching, tuihvulliw. lb 
sura lice, etc., 11 total of 10 In 15 gents a 
barrel. The rale or ocean freight varies 
according to the t-onsoh ami tin- demand 
for vessel room, Onlllinrllv this Is -III t, 
vents a barrel for British p'uit.. , no* season 
Currant- Pate 
fist barrowlnv sod ttsllosr 
this side of thi> Allnntlc. In most of the 
foreign market* the apples are sold at auc- 
tion lu convenient lids, ns per samples se- 
cured through the opening of om- or two 
barrels. Packages which arc "slack" per- 
mitting the apples to rattle when roughly 
sbukoii, or which 11 moist, showing faul- 
ty quality, possibly through damage lu 
ocean passage, are wild separately The 
apple* are usually catalogued In lot* of 
twenty tin reel* nnd upward. Many brand* 
are sold almost wholly 011 their reputation 
nf honest pat king n ml uniformity of sound 
ties* The National Apple Sblp|iei* \ . 
elaliob at it* Inst annual meeting B*keil the 
receiver* of American and Canadian apple- 
ill Liverpool to adopt an Invariable rule al 
lowing an r. Jicthiu of apple* once rata 
klglted olid sold In the and lot! room ltaf 
the nuct hint's 1 1 * have within 1 hs* pa*t forr 
night declined to adopt the proposition, he 
llevlng methods which have lung been to 
vugtie most satisfactory ami fair to nil con- 
eerned, From Hip New England Home 
stfud. 
and Orchard 
1-laitln* -lolwrtllj nr lllm.ls 
i-il for tuvanse Ontario I* on,- ui ibe few 
ajipb* which has a known parentage It 
was prod lived t>y Charles Arnold, of Parti, 
Ontario, Can . by using Wngenef polls 11 up- 
on tlic (low er* of Spi . Wi h i 
throe type* the > 1 1 HI lit ter* of a good export 
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