. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. The financial rating of the Bigalow Fruit Company of Cleveland, Ohio, according to mercantile agencies, stands very high. They are members of the National League of Commission Merchants. They probably handle over 1,500 cars per year, being large handlers of apples, oranges, peaches, and in fact all kinds of fruit and produce, and as will be seen by referring to their ad in this edition, they give first-class references and represent a number of prominent associations, fruit distributors and e;»changes all over the United States. Stacy, on the east by William L. W
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. The financial rating of the Bigalow Fruit Company of Cleveland, Ohio, according to mercantile agencies, stands very high. They are members of the National League of Commission Merchants. They probably handle over 1,500 cars per year, being large handlers of apples, oranges, peaches, and in fact all kinds of fruit and produce, and as will be seen by referring to their ad in this edition, they give first-class references and represent a number of prominent associations, fruit distributors and e;»changes all over the United States. Stacy, on the east by William L. Wagner, N. G. Gibson and Charley Kerr and on the south by Sam Segari and Jac Stich. This area would, in my opinion, take in the principal consuming and distributing markets of the Middle West. It has been only a few years since this entire section, with the possible excep- tion of a few markets like Kansas City and other points in that immediate vicinity, looked entirely to the East for their apples. Even the short time I have been in business the growers in Western New York, Virginia and New England have always waited until the prominent buyers from Chicago, St. Louis and Evansville had looked over their orchards before they were ready to talk business. But things have changed wonderfully in the last five years. The trend is west- ward, and the Kansas City, Chicago, St. Louis and Evansville operator is now looking to the West for his supply of fancy apples. Now, there is a reason. The Eastern growers had their way so long and had gotten the idea in their heads that the Middle West had to go East for their apples. The Eastern growers got so very careless and independent that the trade naturally drifted to newer and bet- ter fields in the Northwest, and the result is that within a comparatively few years the West has taken the lead in the apple industry. But to the growers in the West and the Northwest I want to say that if they continue to use short boxes. New York. The Eastern
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