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Seasonable Fruit Notes 
IVestern New York Busy Harvesting—Red Hook Growers Try New Plan 
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jCYRUIT harvest is at its height now 
with everybody in a rush, racing with 
frost and wind to get the apples. Prac¬ 
tically all varieties except the very late 
ones like Spy and Ben Davis are ready to 
pick. Most of the Twenty Ounce were 
picked last week and Greenings are pretty 
well along also. Tompkins King, Hub- 
bardston and McIntosh will be finished 
this w T eek. Some Baldwins have been 
picked already. 
Prices are more satisfactory to growers 
than they have been any year since 1921, 
due both to a comparatively light crop 
locally and generally, and to poor quality. 
Really good crops which will pack a high 
percentage of A grade fruit are scarce. 
Not in many years have there been so few’ 
barrels delivered to growers at the or¬ 
chards. Many crops are being sold in 
bulk and to the canning factories. Pre¬ 
vailing prices in such sales are one dollar a 
hundredweight, although many have sold 
at seventy-five cents. The Cooperative 
Packing Association has sold a large 
quantity at $1.25 a hundred, bad side 
worms out. Canning factories have paid 
as high as $1.50 a hundredweight for 
Twenty Ounce B grade and culls. Culls 
and dryers are bringing from 70 to 85 
cents a hundredweight according to variety 
and quality while eiders are selling at 
from 50 to 65 centg. 
The packed fruit is bringing good 
prices. A grades of standard varieties 
range from $4 to $6 a barrel according to 
variety — Hubbardstons bringing the 
lower figure and McIntosh the higher. 
One fine orchard of McIntosh has been 
sold at $6. Twenty Ounce are bringing 
$4.50 per barrel A grade. Greenings 
$4.75 to $5. Baldwins are being quoted at 
$5 to $5.25 with few takers as yet. Such 
as have been sold have been at a consider¬ 
able less price. But many prefer storing 
to taking less. B grade sells at from $3 
to $3.75, according to variety. 
Sickel pears w’ere picked last week. 
Kieffers will be ready the last of this week 
or the first of next. 
In my last ‘'notes” I remarked about 
the fickleness of the weather. We had 
just had two weeks of fine weather. 
The next two days, September 29 and 30, 
it rained hard and steadily. This w’as 
right in the midst of Elberta peach picking 
and right at the beginning of bean har¬ 
vest. Some peaches w r ere lost from over¬ 
ripeness over Sunday and two days’ rain, 
again proving the wisdom of being fore¬ 
handed in picking a highly perishable 
crop like peaches. Beans suffered some 
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but no serious damage was done this crop. 
Most of the wheat was sown and this rain 
gave it a grand start. The last sowing has 
been made this past week. This date is 
pretty nearly the deadline for sowing 
wheat and even this is risky. Beans are 
now pretty well harvested and corn is 
mostly cut, although there is enough of 
this to do yet.—M. C. Burritt. 
Red Hook Apple Growers Try 
New Marketing Stunt 
N experiment in merchandising apples 
. ■ direct to the retail trade is being 
tried by the Red Hook Cooperative 
Apple Growers’ Association, in coopera¬ 
tion with one of the largest department 
stores in New York City, R. H. Macy & 
Company. In a nutshell, the plan is as 
follows .-• The Cooperative packs A grade 
apples in cartons, holding 32 apples, 
only 2^i inch stock or larger being used. 
The apples are sold at 74c per carton. 
A member of the American Agricul¬ 
turist staff visited Macy’s store on the 
first day of the experiment and had an 
opportunity • to look over the packages. 
They made an excellent show and accord¬ 
ing to salesmen on the floor, indications 
were that the entire consignment of a 
carload would be sold out during the 
second day. Hubbardstons and Bald¬ 
wins were the varieties on sale. 
A great deal of credit is due R. H. 
Maey & Company in this enterprise, 
inasmuch as it cooperates by placing its 
merchandising organization at the dis¬ 
posal of the Red Hook growers. The 
sale was liberally advertised in the 
metropolitan papers by the department 
store which made the deliveries as well. 
It is about as near to direct “producer 
to consumer trade” as we can get in a 
practical manner. The packages sold for 
74 cents, which brings the apple to the 
consumer at a cost of about 2 }i cents. 
Apples of the same quality at the same 
time were selling in retail fruit stores at 
3 and 4 cents each and in many cases at 
5 cents. 
An Opportunity for New York Growers 
Without waiting for any final details 
on the outcome of the experiment, it 
appears to us that here is an opportunity 
for New York fruit growers to crash into 
the store trade of New York which for a 
long time has been partial to Western 
apples. It is going to take a long time 
and it will take money for advertising, 
but once the growers get on the inside of 
the trade, they are going- to have a won¬ 
derful outlet for their product. This 
kind of an experiment takes money and a 
strong * determination to maintain high 
standards of quality. A trade of this 
sort demands the larger grades, but it is a 
means of merchandising that should 
eventually prove decidedly profitable. 
The ice has been broken and it is now up 
to the growers to play the game. It will 
be a long-drawn-out affair. However, if 
New York apples are to hold the New 
York trade, York State growers have got 
to grade better and then keep grading 
better. If we fall down, the fruit busi¬ 
ness is all going West. 
National Apple Week October 
31 to November 6 
1VTATIONAL Apple Week is a piece of 
publicity work inaugurated by the 
International Apple Shippers’ Association 
to induce an increased consumption of 
apples. The slogan this year is “Tell 
’em About Apples.” It seems that every 
conceivable organization has been induced 
to cooperate in this movement. Apple 
shippers and receivers are taking a most 
intensive interest in the stunt. Further¬ 
more, State and municipal departments 
are actively cooperating. The New 
Y T ork State Department of Farms and 
Markets is doing a great deal of work to 
boost the campaign. Governor Smith 
has expressed his whole-hearted approval 
of it as well as New York City officials 
from the Mayor down. 
