. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 12 BETTER FRUIT October The Apple as a Farm ProductâHistory M By A. Millard, Jr., Hood River. Oregon. â AHKETS, "local" and " lieil," are then pretty well out of the , except for lo- cally-produced fruit, and for like distance .shipment, the grower must turn to the primary niai-ket. The largest primary markets for apples in about the order of their importance may be listed as: New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, (Cincinnati, Bal- timore, St. Louis, Pittsburg, San Fran- cisco, New Orleans and Seattle. We
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 12 BETTER FRUIT October The Apple as a Farm ProductâHistory M By A. Millard, Jr., Hood River. Oregon. â AHKETS, "local" and " lieil," are then pretty well out of the , except for lo- cally-produced fruit, and for like distance .shipment, the grower must turn to the primary niai-ket. The largest primary markets for apples in about the order of their importance may be listed as: New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, (Cincinnati, Bal- timore, St. Louis, Pittsburg, San Fran- cisco, New Orleans and Seattle. We will leave the (|uestion of domestic markets here and proceed to take up in some detail the foreign markets. The writer realizes that more than pro- portionate emphasis is laid below on foreign markets. However, the is most interesting to all fruitgrowers and dealers, and is especially vital to the growers of the Far West, and since their grades of fruit are more in de- mand abroad than the general grades of Fastcrn fruit, the Western growers will do well to follow up this matter very vigorously. About 7 per cent of the United States apple crop is marketed overseas each year, and this fruit lends strongly to be the best class of fruit and to be more uniformly and safely packed. This preference has favored the strictly graded Northwest boxed apple, but the handicap of the transcontinental freight rate to the Atlantic seaboard for European shipment has hugely otf- sel this. F'oreign markets seem to pre- fer the boxed fruit, but barreled apples are generally delivered, i)er bushel, cheaper (barrel e(|uals three bushels). In England, always the chief foreign market for apples, there has been built up by many \ears of custom the liking for barreled a|)ples of certain varieties, notably the Baldwin; this is a distinct advantage to Eastern barreled fruit. There are many dilliculties attendant on foreign shipments of apples, as there are in any foreign trade, and de- Water A
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