1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
349 
Market Briefs. 
PICKED UP HERE AND THERE. 
APPI^E vs. orange.—F rom the opin¬ 
ions expressed by many people we judge 
that not more than two out of 50 really 
prefer an orange to a prime apple, and it 
is doubtful whether anyone will claim that 
the large, smooth, perfectly-ripened North¬ 
ern Spy is equaled by any representative 
of the orange tribe that reaches this mar¬ 
ket. It is true that there are some oranges 
of extra quality which are not good ship¬ 
pers and are unknown to consumers in the 
New York market. Like certain varieties 
of choice Florida pineapples, they are 
eaten where grown, as they will not stand 
transportation. 
COMPARATIVE PRICES.—The follow¬ 
ing is a common scale of prices of apples 
to small buyers; Two for one cent, one 
cent each, three for five cents, two for five 
cents, three for 10 cents, and five cents 
each. The two-for-a-cent grade are very 
small or unsound. The bulk of the oranges 
retailed on the streets go at two or three 
for five cents. Occasionally small ones are 
sold for one cent, but not many. The large 
ones go for the same price as the largest 
apides, five cents each. There are great 
(luantities of inferior and mixed apples 
with comparatively few prime ones, while 
just the opposite is true of the oranges, 
the small and mixed lots being few. 
REFORM AND ORGANIZATION.—With 
the present methods of growing and mar¬ 
keting apples it is safe to say that a 
bushel, or 100 bushels, of the grades re¬ 
tailing at five cents or two for five cannot 
be placed on the New York market so 
cheaply as the same quantity of oranges 
retailing at these figures, on which the 
cost of 3,000 miles of transportation has 
been paid. There are plenty of so-called 
apples which manage to come to maturity 
after a hard season’s fight with soil star¬ 
vation, insect pests and fungus diseases, 
and our markets are flooded with these 
scrubs, which are practically the “razor- 
backs” of the apple tribe. The western 
hog man raises corn-fed Poland Chinas 
because they give him more profit than 
"razorbacks,” and the same principle 
should hold with five-cent apples as com¬ 
pared with scrubs. There are two things 
in particular which in part account for the 
place the California orange holds in east¬ 
ern markets: Thorough organ’zation among 
growers, and intelligent and systematic 
marketing. The orange men have had 
many difficulties, and their troubles are 
not all over yet by any means, but the 
magnitude of the trade they have worked 
up shows what may be done by keeping at 
it. Of course, the conditions in orange¬ 
growing districts are entirely different 
from those in the apple sections, where 
diversified farming is carried on to such 
an extent that the fruit business is second¬ 
ary, and cooperation in the same lines as 
where hundreds of adjoining acres are pro¬ 
ducing the same kind of fruit, is impos¬ 
sible. Yet something of this sort must be 
(ione before apple growers can make much 
impression on the market with large quan¬ 
tities of uniformly fine fruit. But is there 
not an overproduction of apples? Are not 
the markets so crowded now that apples 
frequently sell for scarcely enough to pay 
for picking and shipping? Not of the type 
mentioned. Suppose a man should come 
hero with a sample of Northern Spy, or 
some equally good variety, large, smooth 
and high-colored, and say that he had 500 
bushels of just such fruit, which he would 
wrap, put up in suitable bushel boxes and 
label something after the style of Califor¬ 
nia oranges; he would make a sensation, 
and have no trouble in interesting fruit 
dealers who cater to the better class of 
trade. Now and then some one makes a 
spasmodic effort, but he either does not 
sell to the right parties, or expects too 
much on the start. One grower trying to 
do this alone has a hard row lo hoe, but 
suppose the majority of the large apple 
men in New York State, for instance, who 
are willing to take the trouble to raise 
good fruit and spend time and thought in 
marketing it, got together and hung to¬ 
gether for 10 years, working with an aim 
to produce the best article and see that it 
reaches the consumers who want it, there 
would be no doubt about the future of 
their business. People here want good 
.ai)ples, but cannot get them. There would 
be plenty of opposition from retailers who 
are not at all anxious to handle apples in 
bushel packages that could be sold un¬ 
broken. on the strength of a label, to the 
consumer. They would much rather retail 
in one or two-quart lots at double the 
profit. Many commission merchants also 
would not encourage this, but there are 
.some of the better class who would be glad 
to work with the grower to bring about a 
reform in the apple business. It is a mat¬ 
ter of producing what is wanted and get¬ 
ting it to the people who want it. Unless 
the latter is done, there is but little use 
in doing the former. Here is where a mis¬ 
take is being made right along. Some day 
apple men are going to wake up to the 
possibilities before them in the shape of 
hundreds of thousands of people in the 
great cities of the East who are hungry 
for good apples. w. w. h. 
PEMNSYLV»NIA FRUIT PROSPECTS. 
Small iruit came over Winter in a fine 
condition. Spraying is now in order. But 
very little is done throughout here, about 
10 per cent only. We have no large grow¬ 
ers of apples and pears. We have some who 
grow strawberries, peaches, dewberries 
and raspberries, but these are beginners 
only. j. M. o. 
Ijickdale. 
The prospects for small fruits in this 
section are very promising. The trees 
stood the Winter well and are just be¬ 
ginning to bud. Peaches, pears and plums 
promise a good crop. Spraying is done 
more and more every year. Grain fields 
are in a very good condition, and promise 
a good yield. w. s. u. 
Myerstown. 
Small fruit came through in good con¬ 
dition; present outlook for trees is good. 
I only know of one besides myself who 
sprays at all. I spray just as soon as 
buds start and then just after blossoms 
fall, and find by so doing that I have fruit 
on trees 15 years old that have never borne 
gf>od fruit until they were sprayed with 
Bordeaux Mixture. I am of the opinion 
that it is the only way to get good fruit. 
North Orwell. J. p. s. 
All fruit trees in our section have come 
through the Winter in good condition, and 
are starting out this Spring very nicely. 
One unusual feature is that the peach trees 
are set full of blossom buds and bid fair 
to bloom very fully. Peaches are very un¬ 
reliable with us, and we get them only 
once in three or four years. Cherry and 
pear trees are set well with blossom buds 
and will bloom fully. The plum trees are 
a little later, and have not made much 
advancement yet. The apple trees are in 
good healthy condition. Berries and cur¬ 
rants did not winterkill at all, but straw¬ 
berries got such a poor start last Fall, 
owing to the very dry weather and the 
work of the White grub, that they are not 
in good condition to produce much this 
year. So far as I know none of our fruit 
men in this section sprays regularly. 
Some spray their small fruits, but the 
a poles are neglecteu. I wish that the at¬ 
tention of farmers could be called to the 
fact that cherry and plum trees affected 
with black knot should be destroyed; I see 
many trees left after they are killed, 
which should be cut and burned. 
Sug.ar Grove. n. J- w. 
Weight of Grade Lambs. 
We have mentioned the grade Tunis 
lambs which Clark Allis, of Orleans Co., 
N. Y., has been selling. We are now able 
to give the weights of some of these lambs 
as compared with those of other breeds. 
“I send you the weights of seven Tunis 
grades and one Shropshire grade. The 
Shropshire grade was shrunk; he had been 
!’,way from his mother two or three days, 
but had what grain he would eat, which 
was not much, and the Tunis were taken 
off full feed the morning they were killed. 
April 10, one Shropshire grade, wether, 
live weight, 58 pounds; dressed, SV/z; April 
10, one Tunis grade, ewe, live weight, 51 
pounds; dressed, 29; April 10, one Tunis 
wether, live, 52 pounds; dressed, 291 / 2 ; April 
10, one Tunis wether, live, 52 pounds- 
dressed, SO'/nl April 12, one Tunis grade 
wether, live weight, 52 pounds; dressed, 29, 
one Tunis grade wether, live, 55 pounds; 
dressed, 331 / 2 ; one grade ewe, iive, 52 
pounds: dressed, 30; one wether, live, 52 
pounds; dressed, 31. This is about the way 
they run all through. Have dressed some 
at 47 to 48 pounds, live, and had them 
weigh 28 dressed. All of the lambs were 
full dressed; hide and head off, liver and 
lungs out. I killed a purebred Merino last 
week that weighed 53 pounds live and 28 
dressed: his hide weighed eight pounds, also 
a Shropshire grade ewe 48 live, and it only 
dressed 25 pounds: it was good and fat.” 
A. H. 
A Jkrsey Grange.— We organized a 
Grange at this place one year ago, and 
'now have 100 members. We run a co¬ 
operative business, and do a large trade. 
We meet once a week, and have very busy 
times. Grangers go home loaded with 
goods. We sell at an advance of five per 
cent on cost. w. m. d. 
Three Bridges, N. J. 
I’aper Berry Baskets.— For several 
years .1 have been making it my business 
to watch the progress that paper berry- 
basket manufacturers have been making, 
and I have yet to find one shipper of berry 
baskets who is willing to change from the 
linn, white and clean wooden berry baskets 
to paper baskets, that are not firm and 
are easily soiled. The prices of wooden 
berry baskets are from $2.25 to $2.50 per 
1,000 for the very best, while the prices of 
paper baskets are about the same. They 
are in the knock-down shape, and it is re- 
tiuired to fold them into a basket, the labor 
being worth fully $1 per 1,000. A paper 
basket is easily soiled, is not firm, and will 
not carry berries to market in good con- 
d tion, while a wood basket is strong and 
linn, white and clean, and by long experi¬ 
ence it is known to fruit shippers that the 
woocien basket wili stand the carrying of 
berries to the most distant markets. 
A. REASH. 
Fruit in New York.— Small fruits have 
wintered well; conditions favorable for 
good crops. Seventy-five per cent of fruit 
growers spray 90 per cent acreage. I pre¬ 
fer to apply Bordeaux in early April, as 
leaf buds open, and just before blossoms 
open. No steam or gasoline sprayers are 
used, and only one “geared” machine. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. e. w. c. 
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