. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. AUCTION BY SIMONS, JACOBS & CO., GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, IN THEIR SALESROOM WILMEROTH TELLS OF EUROPEAN APPLE MARKET FOR the benefit of those desiring impression that the German government information in resard to the ereat was unfair in inspecting our apples for disease and pests, discriminating in favor of their own products and throwing the trade in that direction. With this thought 'OR the benefit of those desiring information in regard to the great foreign fruit markets and the methods employed by the various fruit exchanges, Mr. Charles W. Wilmeroth has auth
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. AUCTION BY SIMONS, JACOBS & CO., GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, IN THEIR SALESROOM WILMEROTH TELLS OF EUROPEAN APPLE MARKET FOR the benefit of those desiring impression that the German government information in resard to the ereat was unfair in inspecting our apples for disease and pests, discriminating in favor of their own products and throwing the trade in that direction. With this thought 'OR the benefit of those desiring information in regard to the great foreign fruit markets and the methods employed by the various fruit exchanges, Mr. Charles W. Wilmeroth has author- ized the publication of the following interview. j\Jr. Wilmeroth is well known as a dealer and distributor of apples and pears, and represents the Simons string of houses in New York, Boston, Port- land, Maine, and Nova Scotia; Simons, Jacobs & Co. of Glasgow, Scotland; J. H. Lutten & Son of Hamburg, Ger- many; Simons. Shuttleworth & Co. of Liverpool: Garcia, Jacobs & Co. of Lon- don; Olivet Bros, of New York, and the Stewart Fruit Company of San Francisco and Los Angeles. The Stewart Fruit Company needs nn introduction to the Rogue River Valley, as Mr. Stewart in years gone by taught the people of that valley to pack pears. Olivet Bros, are also well known in that vicinity. Mr. Wilmeroth has traveled to the greater markets of the world, and as the result of his investigations gave the fol- lowinig information: "Hamburg is the great free port of Germany, where buyers from Northwest- ern Russia, as well as St. Petersburg and Moscow, Northern Austria, Sweden, Nor- way, and parts of Switzerland, Holland and Belgium (estimated population of 127,000,000 people) regularly attend the auctions. Hamburg and its suburbs have a population of over 1,000,000 people. Prior to my visit to Hamburg I had the in mind, by the aid of letters from the United States Department of Agriculture and through introductions by friends, I. SAM H. SIMONS, GLASGOW Of Simons, Jacobs &a
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