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Show crop is light in that section. With no relief in price of containers, this fact must be considered in contracting the crops now on the trees. The price of new apple barrels in the west is much as last year, coopers asking something close to 35 cents each for new barrels, standard size. Some of the large growers buy barrel bar-rel stock and put up their own barrels. bar-rels. This season such will cost them about 32 cents, or possibly a little less, in thus handling them. In the apple territory between Cincinnati Cin-cinnati and Philadelphia there is nothing to indicate any lower prices for apple barrels with lumber and limber held so continuously high. Manufacturers Man-ufacturers in West Virginia are quot ing new barrels at 32 cents each. APPLE BARRELS VERY COSTLY Manufacturers Report Good Inquiry In-quiry for Finished Stock, Also for Staves and I Heads. , Barrel manufacturers report a good inquiry for finished apple barrels, also for staves and heads. Prices promise to rule about as high as last year, says Orange Judd Farmer. In a general way new apple barrels, three-bushel standard, are quotable in a wholesale way to 32 to 35 cents each. A manufacturer at St. Louis quotes 35 cents f. o. b. A Kansas City cooper quotes No. 1 apple barrels bar-rels at 35 cents and No. 2 at 30 cents I t. o. b. factory. He writes that apple j |