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ingly low and there is no chance whatever for profit at 
such figures. 
“ We have made pretty heavy plantings in spring of 
1895, trusting that there will be an improvement in the 
business by the time the stock is marketable. We budded 
650,000 peach this season and would have doubled it but 
ran short of seed. In 1894 we budded 1,150,000. We 
planted 500,000 grafts spring ’95, which have done well, 
and budded 50,000 pear and 200,000 apple stocks. From 
the general outlook now we are fearful that we have 
planted too much and we are almost confident that nearly 
all the growers have done the same thing. There is cer¬ 
tainly an over-production and we don’t believe that the 
“ hard times ” are altogether accountable for the low 
prices. The only man who is making money now is the 
dealer; he buys at less than cost of production and is still 
able to get a fair price at retail. 
“ We have had a good growing season here and stock 
never looked better. We are digging twenty-five to 
thirty-five thousand trees per day without our tree plow. 
It is a little too dry to run it satisfactorily.” 
Perry, Lake Co., O., October 14.—L. Green & Son Co.: 
“We believe the nursery trade will run in this section 25 per 
cent, ahead of last year, and the outlook for spring seems 
even better than that as compared with one year ago.” 
Painesville, O., October 21.—The Storrs & Harrison 
Co.: “ Our plantings are about the same. Trade started 
out rather slow this fall, but there has been a continual 
improvement until sales will probably exceed those of 
last season.” 
Dansville, N. Y., October 19.—James M. Kennedy: 
“ We judge that the sales here this fall were the lightest 
in several years, owing to the usual quantity not being 
grown here. A good many of the smaller growers dropped 
out. The trade was slow and late opening up, but it has 
been much heavier than was anticipated, and the surplus 
on many lines of stock has been very largely reduced, and 
in some cases exhausted. There is still a surplus of 
standard pear, dwarf pear, plum, cherry and apple of 
certain varieties. We believe that the surplus will be 
used up by next spring, and very little stock, if any, will 
be carried over. The ruling prices for cherry, apple, 
standard and dwarf pear were lower than last fall ; plums 
brought a better price. We judge that standard and 
dwarf pear, cherry and apple have struck bottom prices, 
as they cannot be grown at the present prices. We are 
in hopes by another year prices will be better. As to the 
planting next spring, we anticipate that it will be rather 
light owing to the low prices, and that more of the smaller 
growers will be obliged to drop out. But the leading 
firms will plant their usual amount in hopes of better 
prices which must come sooner or later.” 
Grand Junction, Col., October 15.—Grand Valley 
Nursery and Orchard Co.: “We bought out the G. J. 
Carpenter Co.’s branch nursery located here, the 13th of 
last December, and at once commenced an active canvass. 
Our sales for spring of ’95 were $25,600. We have just 
finished putting in 4.00,000 buds and have a fine stand. 
Our trade for fall and spring promises to be very large. 
Good orders are coming in daily. This is an ideal fruit 
country. Apples, pears, plums, prunes, peaches, cherries, 
sweet and sour; apricots, nectarines, quince, almonds, 
grapes, foreign and native, and all kinds of small fruits 
are a great success. Trees make a rapid growth and bear 
very early, and the fruit is of the finest quality. Nursery 
stock makes a wonderful growth. Our one-year apples 
are 5 to 6 feet, and up, well branched. Plum on plum 
one year are 8 to 11 feet, well branched, and up, while 
many of our one-year cherries are 5 to 6 feet, i inch in 
caliper. All other trees make just as good growths.” 
Dayton, O., October 22.—The character of the whole¬ 
sale trade this fall has been peculiar in many respects. 
Orders were late as a rule, but few being booked previous 
to the active shipping season. Prices ruled low, very low, 
and buyers had their own way and could dictate prices to 
a great extent. The general supply was known to be 
small, yet the trade was so quiet as to give no indication 
of the extent of the coming demand so that there was a 
general disposition among growers to sell regardless of 
prices, which ruled very much lower on apple, pear and 
cherry than necessary. 
The active shipping season, however, brought a steady 
stream of orders, exhausting the supply of many kinds, 
completely changing the situation, and holders are gener¬ 
ally taking advantage of it. The smaller growers having 
discontinued during past seasons of unprofitable prices, 
most of the stock in this valley is in the hands of the 
larger establishments, whose sales are, as a rule, much 
larger than earlier prospects seemed to warrant. 
Apples are generally closely sold, but a limited supply 
being left for spring. Pears have nearly all gone out this 
fall, and plums, in limited supply from the first, will cer¬ 
tainly fall far short of even a light spring demand. 
Cherry is about the only stock not now held at firm 
prices. The supply is not excessive, but the demand has 
been light. Continued weakness in the cherry market 
will invite their sale by dealers for spring, when the stock 
on hand promises to go readily. First class peach are 
scarce and advancing, while the lighter grades are in 
ample supply. Altogether, the prospects are encourag¬ 
ing, and we seem to be right on the verge of—living 
prices and profitable business. 
Bridgeport, O., October ii.—E. W. Reid: “Fall 
sales are about the same as they were last season, and 
had it not been for the exceedingly dry summer and fall 
they would have been much better. This has extended 
throughout the entire fruit belt both East and West, and 
has put quite a damper on fall planting. The intentions 
of the growers have been good, but they have not been 
able to carry them out. Little planting will be done in 
this section this fall, but we look for quite a trade in the 
spring. Planting would have been better than usual this 
fall, as the warm dry spring caused many of the large 
growers to hold back their orders until fall. Everything 
