1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
569 
MARKET NOTES 
POTATOES seem to have struck bottom. 
One who sees the quantities of smooth, 
handsome tubers in the market now going 
for $1 per barrel or a little more can hard¬ 
ly believe that scarcity and high prices 
were things of the near past. Most of the 
growers who are shipping now depend on 
getting rid of their crop as soon as dug. 
When the bulk of the early Jersey and 
Long Island crop is disposed of there may 
be some slight advance in price. 
FIRE NOTES.—The reported losses in 
the United States and Canada during July 
were less than for any other month of the 
current year, $10,020,000. Nine fires were 
from $200,000 to $575,000; 15 between $100,000 
and $175,000 ; 40 between $50,000 and $90,000, 
and 97 ranged from $10,000 to $45,000. There 
were 32 mills and factories, 11 lumber 
plants, nine stables and farm buildings, 
seven storehouses and elevators, three ice 
houses, and one schoolhouse, insane asy¬ 
lum and church. 
HOP FIGURES.—Blight is reported in 
some sections of New York State. The 
yield is estimated at from 30,000 to 35,000 
bales. On the Pacific coast the outlook is 
favorable. The English crop is put at 44,- 
800,000 pounds, and the German and Aus¬ 
trian at 89,600,000 and 67,200,000 pounds, re¬ 
spectively, the German crop promising an 
increase of about one-fourth over last year. 
Continental hops sell at a premium over 
American grown, sometimes double. The 
reason is that they are stronger. 
FRESH FRUITS.—Receipts of peaches 
are heavy. Arrivals from Georgia are 
slacking a little, and more defective fruit 
than previously is noted. A decided im¬ 
provement Is seen in this week’s offerings 
from Delaware and Maryland. Plums are 
still very dull. There appears to be no 
prospect for better prices until the peach 
rush is over, when late plums may pick up 
a little. North Carolina grapes are seen 
here and there. Niagara and Delaware 
are the varieties. Somebody must have 
been doing lively work In the huckleberry 
fields, as receipts have Increased so great¬ 
ly as to cause a drop in prices. The past 
week has been good watermelon weather, 
and with light arrivals the market is firm. 
Buying muskmelons is uncertain business, 
as there are so many which look well but 
are entirely lacking in quality. 
BUTTER.—Except on extra creamery the 
market is weak. Low-grade creamery and 
factory are very dull. Of course there 
ought not to be any butter of this kind. 
The fault is not with the cow but in the 
handling. It appears to be a fact that the 
packing companies are taking increased in¬ 
terest in the butter business, evidently ex¬ 
pecting to monopolize the trade eventually. 
Bv controlling the output of the creameries 
and factories they would practically do 
this, as the butter made by individual 
families is now a small item in the coun¬ 
try’s consumption. There are good reasons 
why the packers should handle butter. 
They nave the storage facilities, plenty of 
capital to hold it over low-price periods, 
and are in close touch with the retail 
trade, much closer in fact than many but¬ 
ter (and oleo) dealers would care to have 
known. 
UNSATISFACTORY APPLE SALES.—A 
reader sends us the following account sales 
and asks: “How is this for boxed apples?" 
July 26, 2 crates apples @ 50c.$1.00 
July 28, 3 crates apples @ 50c. 1.50 
$2.50 
Express .$1.25 
Commission .25 
$1.50 
Net proceeds .$1.00 
To this he adds 5 egg crates at .07.35 
$ .65 
This is a rather tough outlook for the 
man who shipped the apples. Nothing is 
said as to what the apples were, but we 
assume them to have been ordinary Sum¬ 
mer fruit, fairly sorted and poured into the 
crates. Possibly they brought all they 
were worth, for Summer fruit spoils quick¬ 
ly. Of course the express company’s charge 
was purebred highway robbery, as the fruit 
was carried less than 50 miles. We do not 
know why anyone should use egg crates 
for apple packages, and would expect just 
as good results from shipments made in 
barrels or washtubs. An egg crate is made 
for eggs. It is not a general-purpose pack¬ 
age, like a barrel, and to put anything else 
in it is to cheapen that product. We do 
not see that the fact that apples in egg 
crates did not sell at a premium is any ar¬ 
gument against the use of neat, uniform, 
small packages suitable for family use. 
Perhaps there may be no object in putting 
up Summer apples in this way, as few 
families would care to buy more than four 
quarts or a peck at a Ume. Common 16 or 
18-quart peach baskets do very well for 
small quantities of early apples, better than 
an odd-shaped second-hand box. We would 
uot make an unqualified recommendation 
of small package* even for Winter apples. 
If one gets satisfactory results from bar¬ 
rels, he might as well stick to them. The 
object In using small packages Is to get 
the fruit more widely distributed and in¬ 
duce a larger family consumption. If east¬ 
ern growers are to use the apple box with 
profit, it will be necessary to follow the 
example of Pacific coast fruit men, use 
clean, uniform packages and sort and nack 
the fruit more carefully than in barrels. 
SWEET CORN has been offered here 
since the latter part of June, although un¬ 
til the present time but little has been 
received that would be considered fit to 
eat by one who knows what good corn is. 
The southern corn sent here may be prime 
when shipped, but it is too far from the 
consumer. Its wilted appearance is great¬ 
ly in contrast with the nearby crop now 
coming in. Hackensack corn brings the 
highest price of any of the first nearby 
corn. In this section of Bergen County, 
N. J., there are many farmers who make 
a business of raising corn, melons and 
Lima beans, taking them to New York in 
big wagons. Some of them live 20 miles or 
more away. They start at noon or later 
and get to market anywhere from five 
o’clock to midnight. Some have arrange¬ 
ments with commission merchants, and 
immediately unload and return, while oth¬ 
ers go to the public market places and re¬ 
tail their own loads. It is a long, sleepy 
job, though the trip across the Hackensack 
Meadows is likely to be Interesting if one 
runs into a swarm of mosquitoes. The 
loads run from 4,000 to 6,000 ears. To get 
over the long, steep hill up the Palisades 
help Is required. During the marketing 
season there are teamsters on hand who 
make a business of giving the truckers a 
lift, charging 50 cents each. Sometimes 
there will be so many loads waiting for 
help that one will have to wait an hour 
or two before getting up the hill. The only 
reason why Hackensack corn brings more 
than that from south Jersey is that it is 
fresh and may be eaten the day after It is 
picked, while that shipped by freight 100 
miles or less Is likely to be two or three 
days on the road and in freight houses. 
w. w. H. 
THE FRUIT OUTLOOK. 
The apple crop of the State was very 
promising early in the season, but unfa¬ 
vorable climatic conditions have reduced 
it very materially, and it can now be con¬ 
sidered as only fair. There are as yet no 
Minnesota apples in the market, nor offer¬ 
ings being made by buyers, to my knowl¬ 
edge. A. W. LATHAM. 
Sec’y Minn. Horticultural Society. 
Our apples are fine and our adapted va¬ 
rieties are full. Percentages are all guess 
work. President Wellhouse, who does not 
travel, says 30 per cent. I travel over the 
State and 1 should say 60 per cent. Neither 
is certain. Quality is excellent. Dealers 
offer from 33 to 40 cents per bushel on the 
trees; the lower price means everything— 
culls, etc. WM. H. BARNES. 
Kansas Horticultural Society. 
It seems hard to get any reliable figures 
on the apple crop this year, or at least 
there seem to be a great variety of opin¬ 
ions from neighboring localities. In this 
part of northern Illinois I should estimate 
the crop of Winter apples at possibly 60 
per cent, with quality running poor where 
orchards were not sprayed. Summer apples 
are nearly a full crop. As to prices, there 
are no offers being made yet that I know 
of for Winter fruit. l. r. bryant. 
Illinois State Horticultural Society. 
In this section of the State (upper Cham¬ 
plain Valley) I do not estimate the crop of 
Winter apples to be over 60 per cent of the 
1900 crop, and as far as I have received 
reports from the other fruit growing sec¬ 
tions of Vermont this is high enough for 
the entire State; the drop was heavy, com¬ 
ing later than usual, in July. Spy and 
Baldwin are not bearing as well as Rhode 
Island Greening, Sutton and Bellflower. No 
buyers for fruit to ship are here yet. Early 
apples are selling in a small way in local 
markets for $2.50 per barrel, d. c. hicks. 
Vermont Horticultural Society. 
Apples are looking fine for this season 
of the year, larger than usual; but in 
many orchards that were not sprayed the 
apples are rusty, a black fungus covering 
half of the apple. We had a hailstorm 
that nearly destroyed large orchards. Ap¬ 
ples were cut and bruised, making them 
unmarketable. We have buyers every day. 
One orchard was sold for $2,000, which they 
estimate would pick 1,600 barrels. Another 
orchard, which will pick 700 barrels, was 
sold for $900. I would place the crop about 
40 per cent of a full yield of prime apples. 
I have been out two days with a buyer, 
but people are not generally ready to sell. 
There seems to be a demand for the apples 
as a good figure. The fungus on the apples 
that were not thoroughly sprayed will 
lessen the proportion of barreling apples. 
Perhaps the excessive wet weather has 
caused this. w. R. f. 
RushvUle, N. Y. 
Fruits from Delaware. 
The early Summer apple crop is going 
from Delaware at good prices; 40 to 80 
cents per bushel is now being paid at the 
railroad stations. Prices were better a lit¬ 
tle earlier, and upon the whole It has been 
a profitable crop. In a short time peaches 
will be on in full flow, and apples will be 
offered in small quantities only. Late ap¬ 
ples will be above the average in quantity 
and quality, but I am unable to estimate 
the number of bushels. Altogether, early 
and late, the crop will be much heavier 
than last year, but not equal to that of 
1900. I have not heard of any offers for 
orchards of late or Winter fruit. 
WESLEY WEBB. 
Del. State Board of Agriculture. 
Few Apples in Virginia. 
The prospect for this year’s apple crop 
is very poor. I could hardly say what per¬ 
centage there will be, as what apples there 
are, are very irregular. Some of our large 
orchards report here and there-a tree with 
a fairly good crop, and then 20 or 25 trees 
without an apple, and then another partly 
full. Generally speaking, in this section 
(Albemarle County, one of the largest pro¬ 
ducers) the crop is exceedingly light and 
scattering, so much so that I think It 
might be said to be practically a failure. 
From what I have heard from adjacent 
counties along this Piedmont and in the 
valley sections, the same conditions exist. 
I have heard of no buyers traveling around 
visiting orchards, and conclude they have 
found out the conditions. I have met one 
or two men at our depot inquiring as to 
prospects who took the next train away. 
One of these men offered me up to $6 per 
barrel for some Summer apples I had last 
month. WALTER whately. 
Virginia Horticultural Society. 
Apple Prospects in Illinois. 
In southern Illinois the apple crop for 
this year is estimated at 75 per cent. 
Northern Illinois has not yet become an 
apple producing section, and it will have 
to buy apples for home consumption. In 
the middle section of Illinois and in Mis¬ 
souri and Iowa some experts estimate 
the crop as high as 50 per cent, but I am 
inclined to think that 35 per cent will come 
much nearer to the mark. There are a 
goodly number of apple growers who have 
given the best of attention to their work 
and their efforts have had a telling effect 
on their orchards. Such orchards will 
yield from 60 to 90 per cent of a crop. Many 
old and neglected orchards are playing out, 
however, yet this effect is being measur 
ably overcome by the many new orchards 
constantly coming into bearing, and they 
are strong and superior successors. There 
is an unqualified assurance that there will 
be a larger and better crop of apples this 
coming Fall season than there has been for 
the past three or four years. Summer ap¬ 
ples sold from $1 to $1.25 per barrel in the 
orchard. It is almost too early to fix the 
price for Fall and Winter apples, but it is 
anticipated that they will sell from $1 to 
$1.50 per barrel in the orchard. 
JAMES HANDLEY. 
Miss. Valley Apple Growers’ Ass’n. 
Fruit Conditions in Maine. 
The season has been a very peculiar one 
thus far. Although the snow went off 
early the Spring was late and wet, and 
there was much trouble In getting in crops. 
Many were put in so late that only the 
most favorable conditions from now on 
will secure a good crop. In some cases 
land intended for corn was planted to 
something else. July was a very cloudy 
month, and haying at the present time 
(August 1) is hardly more than well under 
way. The past week has been very favor¬ 
able and people are rushing the work along 
as fast as possible. The hay is coming in 
very well, and pasturage has been unusual¬ 
ly good. The grass has been abundant, 
and there have been comparatively few 
insects to annoy either stock or plants. 
As to fruit, the strawberry crop was light, 
the first cause being the heavy rains in 
December, that caused the plants to win¬ 
terkill badly where they were not protect¬ 
ed, and most were not protected; then for 
some reason the remaining plants did not 
mature as much fruit as was expected. 
Raspberries and blackberries are good; 
currants and gooseberries are also fairly 
good, though the freeze in May hurt them 
in some parts of the State. Cherries and 
plums are both short. There was early 
promise of a fair crop of apples, out pres¬ 
ent indications do not show more than 50 
per cent. The trees are looking fine, and 
have not been affected by insects to any 
extent, so that another year the trees will 
be in fine condition for a crop of fruit. The 
high price of apples last year has encour¬ 
aged the fruit growers very much, and 
orchards have received more than usual 
care. d. h. knowlton. 
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