[Fruit culture] . as a rule, better than the selling of a brand by an individualgrower, for but few growers have fruit enough for sale annuallyto impress a market to an appreciable extent. 34. Many apples are shipped annually and sold at wholesaleto foreign markets, principally to England. Many of the boxedapples from the West, including the Spitzenburg, Delicious,and Newtown Pippin, find a ready sale in England, as do theNorthern Spy, King, Greening, Baldwin, Fameuse, and Mannof the Eastern States and Canadian Provinces. Apples thatare to be shipped to foreign countries should be very careful
[Fruit culture] . as a rule, better than the selling of a brand by an individualgrower, for but few growers have fruit enough for sale annuallyto impress a market to an appreciable extent. 34. Many apples are shipped annually and sold at wholesaleto foreign markets, principally to England. Many of the boxedapples from the West, including the Spitzenburg, Delicious,and Newtown Pippin, find a ready sale in England, as do theNorthern Spy, King, Greening, Baldwin, Fameuse, and Mannof the Eastern States and Canadian Provinces. Apples thatare to be shipped to foreign countries should be very carefullygraded and securely packed, as only good fruit that reaches itsdestination in good condition will sell readily. As a large part of the apples exported go to Great Britain, itis well for a grower to know something of selling methods at §7 AND MARKETING 51 Liverpool, Glasgow, and London, the principal ports in GreatBritain for the sale of apples. The fruit, as a rule, is sold at auc-tion. Each shipment n 1^ — Q. L^ PACKEDAND ,, ^^/X^ ^, W*™ YAKIMASH1PPE08Y >]y;</,ii UilJ,Oll W* tl BLUE RmSON BRAND 1 is kept separate andbefore the auction anybuyer may go amongthe packages and openas many as two of eachlot. Then at the auc-tion, one package isopened and bids aremade on the wholeshipment or on anypart of it. Thus, itmay be seen that tobe sure of the piir-chaser opening a pack-age of good fruit, theshipment should beimiformly good. In Great Britain,fruit is sometimes soldby shippers direct todealers or to privatesalesmen, the pur-chaser thus saving thecommissions chargedat the auction. Thismethod of selling isespecially desirable forgrowers or associa-tions that can guarantee their fruit to be of a uniformly goodgrade.
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