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THE RURAI> NEW-YORKER 
October 14. 
THE APPLE SITUATION. 
In regard to the apple buyers securing 
cold storage, thereby forcing farmers to 
sell to them, I do not know of my own 
knowledge that they are doing so. I have 
heard it rumored that it was being done 
along the lake. It is possible to get all thd 
storage we want here from the LeRoy Cold 
Storage Co. Not a great many sales of 
apples have been made, but I know of 
several who have sold to a local dealer at 
$1.50 to $1.75 for Greenings, and $2.50 
to $2.60 for No. 1 red fruit. King, Spy, 
Baldwin, etc. The quality of the fruit was 
never as good in this section, chiefly due 
to Professor Whetzel getting us interested 
in' taking better care of our orchards. We 
formed an association known as the Beth- 
any-Batavia Fruit Growers’ Association, and 
established two field laboratories, with a 
pathologist in charge of one, and an ento¬ 
mologist in the other, and cared and sprayed 
for under their direction. As an ex¬ 
ample, I picked 131 barrels of Greening 
apples from one acre, and it was hard to 
find an imperfect apple. In orchard adjoin¬ 
ing, uneared for and unsprayed, it was hard 
to find a perfect apple. I secured first 
prize at the Genesee County Fair on King 
and Detroit Red in a field of 14. My or¬ 
chard is in sod. too, which is contrary to 
Cornell advice, but I believe it is a question 
of pruning, mulching with barnyard manure 
and thorough spraying at the right time, 
more than tillage. The reason a great 
many have been disappointed in the results 
from spraying is because the spray was not 
applied at the right time and often enough, 
and in sufficient quantity. J. w. burke. 
Genesee Co., N. Y. 
We think it is true that the dealers have 
taken most of the cold storage room. That, 
at least, is the report here. The manager 
of the Ililton cold storage plant told me 
that one-half of that plant was taken by 
the growers. The best price here is $2.35 
per barrel. Most large growers are storing. 
Monroe Co., N. Y. delos tenny. 
The storage situation in Wayne County 
appears to be no exception to the reports 
which you have heard. About the first 
week in September a party, reported to.be a 
buyer, secured an option on all the remain¬ 
ing space in the local storage. His name is 
withheld. The day his option expired he 
closed the deal and signed for the space. 
Up to that time two orchards had been 
sold, one 80 cents a bushel for everything 
picked: the other for $2.50 per barrel for 
the fruit. After these sales, buyers left the 
vicinity for perhaps two weeks. They are 
returning now and are offering $1.50 to $2 
per barrel, barreled, for No. 1 fruit. They 
seem very confident in their offers, but are 
not approaching any grower who is known 
to have secured storage. It is reported 
that every inch of space has been engaged 
all over the State, and the buyers are citing 
this fact as an indication of an immense 
crop. The capacity of the storage is 120.- 
000 barrels. The crop in this vicinity will 
probably amount to 100.000 barrels. I think 
it doubtful if 25 per cent, of the growers 
have secured sufficient storage space. In 
most cases the crop is so far exceeding esti¬ 
mates that the Greenings alone are filling 
up the space which had been engaged as 
ample for an entire crop. About 50 per 
cent, of the apples are yet in the growers’ 
hands. They are about ready to sell now: 
are also planning to fall back on common 
storage in their cellars and have started 
evaporating. A. G. 
Pultneyville, N. Y. 
I have never known a year when the 
farmers were so largely putting their apples 
in cold storage as this. A majority of the 
larger growers are putting in Greening and 
Cranberries are selling for $2 to $2.40. 
Baldwins are bringing as high as $2.75 to 
$3. While this seems as not high, com¬ 
pared with last year and year before, when 
you consider what the consumer will have 
to pay, it seems a fair price. Barrels are 
selling for 35 cents each, and wages for 
picking and barreling are not as high as for 
two previous years. The fact is that more 
than nine-tenths of all orchards that have 
not been well cared for for past few years 
have had but little fruit and that of rather 
poor quality. But orchards that have been 
properly looked after have fair crops of 
fine fruit and the owners need not growl 
at the returns. It does seem that, when 
they see the difference in yield and quality 
of products, good care would be the uni¬ 
versal rule. J. s. WOODWARD. 
Niagara Co., N. Y. 
I do not think in this section dealers 
have any more space in the cold storages 
than usual, but there are very few buyers 
and they don’t seem to have any nerve, or 
else they are all nerve. The Shippers’ As¬ 
sociation. at their Detroit meeting, decided 
on a $2 basis and are sticking close to their 
agreement, but are paying now around 
$2.50. We have 5,000, and are putting 
them all in storage. c. a.. 
Medina, N. Y. 
When storage was to be had. grower and 
buyer each had an equal chance. Buyers 
were combined to wait because they thought 
growers held the price a little too high. I 
and the grower secured the storage till the ! 
supply was exhausted. Not having storage 
enough to accommodate the crop, there are* 
many left out and the buyers pays just 
what he pleases. At Lyndonville the ruling 
price now is from $1.25 to $2, but $1.50 
and $1.75 are paid oftener than $2. Many 
of those who did not get storage have sold j 
their Greenings to the dry house for 75 i 
cents per hundred, and shake them off. { 
Another deaJL is to throw out all apples be¬ 
low two inches and sell to the canning fac- j 
tory at $1 per hundred. We have not 
storage capacity enough along this line to ; 
accommodate the crop. At Hamlin, just : 
east of us, they have taken steps to form a 
company and erect a large chemical storage. 
We need another plant here as large or 
larger than the one we now have. In this 
section the grower is fast becoming the 
speculator when prices are not satisfactory 
early in the season. M. s. J. 
Lyndonville, N. Y. 
Cold storage is not obtainable here. There 
is only one in this immediate section and 
that is fully taken with. I believe, legiti¬ 
mate reservations. Our dealers here find 
they cannot secure storage, though they 
have tried all over. They apparently do 
not think there is any deal on to freeze 
anybody out. I think prices are fairly sat¬ 
isfactory. Greenings are plentiful and slow. 
Sales all the way from 75 cents per 100 
tree run, to $2.25 per barrel. It depends 
on the other stuff going with them and the 
proportion of the greens to the other sorts. 
Sales of red fruit are common at $2.35. 
Some sales where not much mixture or 
odd sorts in the lot have brought $2.50. 
Where one has a few Spy, Bellflower, Ben, 
Talman, Swaar. etc., to go in with his 
strong commercial kinds, it almost invari¬ 
ably takes off a shilling or so on his entire 
crop. They are all right for family or 
private trade, but not for commercial deals 
at the present time. F. E. R. 
Seneca, N. Y. 
The general impression here is that most 
of the space in cold storage plants has been 
engaged by growers and not dealers; also 
that the dealers are not buying near their 
usual amount of apples to be stored. The 
crop reports up to September 1 would indi¬ 
cate that we have about 50 per cent, more 
barreling apples in the United States than 
we had last year. Buying has been done 
at about $1 per barrel less than was paid 
last year. Last year 24.000.000 barrels at 
$3, would amount to $72,000,000. and this 
year 36.000,000 barrels, at $2, $72,000,000. 
I believe that we have the largest crop of 
Duchess, Wealthy, Twenty Ounce and 
Greening this country ever saw, and if 
these varieties are not pushed into the mar¬ 
kets and consumed. Baldwins, Ben Davis 
and other late-keeping varieties of red fruit 
will never bring price enough to pay the 
expenses of holding them for a late mar¬ 
ket. Throughout this section we are anx¬ 
ious for a market for fine hand-picked 
Greenings, to be loaded, loose in the cars. 
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