| Show f k kt t apples took look the highest prize nt at e the lost laRt f aria F It lion and the great au t 1 I or of our frUit 1 I over oer any raised In nil Eu Europe J J rope ropo has long been ad mulled We 0 have u es c In our north northern ern tier lieI or of states just JURl r the rIght combination of soil soli and cli climate mate for producing apples of the driest hIgh color anti and good 00 1 keeping but bul the tho northern grown American apple also owes It its abroad to tho great care taken In ht pack lag In It for tor market 1 transit low rates for freight and above all ample facilities for tor cold storage by J menus ot of which fruit may be kept until well Into the wInter nut and toward spring when prices are aru havo combined to ranks apple culture very Cry of I I late The apple gatherIng season is now at atI I Its height and the tho growers nto being f f visited by the of city I who are ure In the orchards orchard us as snort a as the extent of urn tho crop hns been determined I and ready to contract for tor the best beRt fruit on the trees tree It must he be hart picked ripe and but not mellow Se Sc tine tho grade for the thc Packers expert first lays two courses of apples lit at the bottom or of L a barrel his hll assistant emptying In Ii a bushel slowly without bruisIng shaking them up smartly another bushel and another r shaking succeeding until the barrel I is full The last lut and third bushel ts is pack packed in by hand two courses S being left leCt above Y the top of the barrel The Tho problem m then thenIs Is to lit In the head In spite or of the tho reaped i i i up apples and antl this Is accomplished by means or of n a press n a simple hut but powerful affair constructed of at two uprights nude of one ouo and a 0 quarter tacit Inch steel bent nt at atthe the ends to fit under the bottom of oC the barrel harrel nn and resist the pressure whirl which conies from II a w head fastened to the end At 1 the bottom or of the screw is III n a movable pressure bar time the exact ex net act diameter of oC the barrel at the tho top und and beneath this the head la is arranged the Gentle but persistent pressure Is th then n applied until the fruit Is forced Inside the thc barrel and anel the mead In place when It Is firmly nailed and the thc apples are ready for tor storage For 01 two or three months after pack hug Ing there Is resistance from within the barrel to holt hold the tho head hend In place but otter after that the apples shrink arid at tire the enl end of at six Mix months It if flU still II In storage the packer opens the tho Farrel and fills It III In the first instance packing makes makell the difference a frill Cull and n 11 slack sack barrel Ilane which Is also alFO lire tho difference profit and loss when the Ihl fruit Is auctioned ort abroad say fit at Liverpool for the slacks bring anI only to one eighth the tho price or of full tull ones onos The longer apples cnn can be kept kepi oilier things being normal the higher the they bring Six HI months month Is gener generally finer all ally the tad In the interval he be betWeen tween packing and reaching the tho con conSumer Sumer they ore are In cold Stor Storage age ngi The Th largest par packers who are At Atthe atthe the same Mine time wholesale dealers In infruits fruits own or control cold rold storage 1 i plants and In n 11 goof year lIr JI like e this rent additional space usually In th lire cities or centers or of distribution and at points widely distributed Storehouses are erected In the producing districts so soi i 00 e f t P m 4 k uy i I f j L I I t r I iJ N Nu I u J 1 i I I IG G j jt w t ti ti Y i PICKING ASSORTING AND PACKING APPLES FOR COLD STORAGE that the lire fruit may Ill be shipped a no di us as possible yet et It often otten happens that n a city consumer near the thu ripple growing districts will viii receive fruit raised within a 11 short distance of hIs home which has traveled many hundred t t miles mile to and from the cold storage plant whore It was kept until taken out C for r market Pears are uro parked and heM lieu in III the same manner as al apples but cannot he kept kelt so long In storage In some somo sections as ast t ea fi tioNe i In ht both fruits are packed in boxes boxe Jilt but the same cue care Is 19 used I whether put up in this shape or to In bar har I robs The fhe crop Is large this I year that there Is promise of II a dearth I bar of oC meet the demand A liar liart t Ot 4 I red rei costs cosh the packer about 35 26 cents der de livered at the tho orchard the fruit to till fill tillIt It I 1 for tor No 1 grade grilliE the cost cast of oC sorting packing freight from orchard to storage and other incidentals brIng bringing lIng ing the total up Ul to quite 2 per barrel I Freightage across tare ocean FI eav from New ew York Yurl to Liverpool varies from rota 40 to 70 cents per barrel to which must mUM b the cost ot of and Ild ti l dentals I lI first American are j to io gone lIone across the with Wilh Lie 11 old ohl lien Franklin In 1168 8 and nud title ra J vol 01 So appealed tt to the British t tI t that they were In great relit demand d nt at form I pence each lIh More than fifty RIY rN the Pippins MII to In InI London ondon lit at 21 per ler barrell tire the I for them lam nt at n II guinea rJ a 1 zen z zen en Just at al present nt the frill rull far 1 and lien len Davis DWI varieties In hIgh favor foreign tastes running L t color and shape liS as much liS as to fin hug ing qualities la In foreign above all the keeping quality of I r fruit Is to be considered as af It is IK tall w 11 known that a single Ringle mushy apple will spoil apoll n a whole barrel n I MI full the fhe man with nil cat apple orchard is In great luck Illek this year ear for from nil all over oer the country como come reports of oC full crops mean honn small fortunes to those who have hae thousands or of trees From the thelong Ion long established orchards of the NI New and middle states from the west and the north Pad through though the great and ever extending apple b belt lt III not tire the try rry goes up for barrels and boxes s fur tur the lire abundant yield the lire American apple growers mold hohl their congress at St Ht Louis next month old Johnny John rJ who scattered blessings and In his over Oer 1 n large portion of at the country now teeming with Its wealth ot of IU luscious fruit should have a monument voted to hl mentor O 0 WOODSON 0 |
