. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. I9I7 BETTER FRUIT Page 35 these varieties make evaporated slock of the choicest quality, as for example Ben Davis, which makes a white fruit unequaled by any variety except pos- sibly the Baldwin. Were the crop turned bodily into the evaporator, a very considerable share of the harvest- ing cost could be eliminated, and the operator of the drying plant could make a product a large part of which would grade as extra fancy and choice, hence could pay a price two or three dollars higher than that paid for culls. I have no expectation that this will be done in the im
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. I9I7 BETTER FRUIT Page 35 these varieties make evaporated slock of the choicest quality, as for example Ben Davis, which makes a white fruit unequaled by any variety except pos- sibly the Baldwin. Were the crop turned bodily into the evaporator, a very considerable share of the harvest- ing cost could be eliminated, and the operator of the drying plant could make a product a large part of which would grade as extra fancy and choice, hence could pay a price two or three dollars higher than that paid for culls. I have no expectation that this will be done in the immediate future, but I believe I foresee a time coming in which the continued crowding of these unprofitable varieties into the market will have hammered down the general level of apple prices to a point at which the grower will realize a larger profit from them when dried than when sold as fresh fruit, and it would be the part of wisdom to anticipate the inevitable and to take steps to meet it. Will the evaporator or the vinegar plant handle culls with most profit to the grower? Vinegar making is the least profitable method of converting unmarketable fruit into marketable products. The market is limited by a generally low per capita consumption, which is not materially increasing and which is not capable of any material stimulation; the producer in our terri- tory is handicapped by the bulkiness of his product, the great expense of rail transportation into consuming ter- ritory outside a narrow radius, and the strong competition of a product made from factory waste. The market is sub- ject to great fluctuations, since every year of large apple crops in the East- ern or interior apple-growing regions is one of large overproduction of vine- gar and consequent heavy decline in price. The business is also necessarily much more highly speculative than any other method of converting fruit into salable commodities, by reason of the long period which must intervene be- tween the purcha
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