AMERICAN APPLES ABROAD.
Furnished by Walter Wellhouse, through courtesy of Simons, Shuttleworth & Co., Liverpool.
| Ports of Export. | |||||||||
| Date. | Figures given represent barrels. | ||||||||
| New York. | Boston. | Montreal. | Portland. | Baltimore. | Philadelphia. | Halifax. | St. Johns. | ||
| 1897. | |||||||||
| Aug. | 7 | 201 | |||||||
| " | 14 | 232 | |||||||
| " | 21 | 829 | |||||||
| " | 28 | 986 | 30 | 592 | |||||
| Sept. | 4 | 2,178 | 653 | 793 | |||||
| " | 11 | 6,608 | 897 | 2,470 | |||||
| " | 18 | 7,873 | 908 | 6,178 | |||||
| " | 25 | 9,435 | 1,622 | 9,623 | 2,106 | ||||
| Oct. | 2 | 10,448 | 1,849 | 9,306 | 7,000 | ||||
| " | 9 | 16,233 | 3,823 | 8,279 | |||||
| " | 16 | 18,193 | 7,738 | 8,285 | 3,218 | ||||
| " | 23 | 24,930 | 15,212 | 8,450 | 9,146 | ||||
| " | 30 | 24,237 | 19,660 | 16,806 | 5,410 | ||||
| Nov. | 6 | 22,469 | 19,237 | 31,811 | 390 | 4,216 | |||
| " | 13 | 15,747 | 16,201 | 20,816 | |||||
| " | 20 | 27,219 | 9,526 | 31,441 | 363 | 5,000 | |||
| " | 27 | 18,261 | 8,152 | 8,463 | 9,431 | 1,045 | 1,285 | ||
| Dec. | 4 | 15,649 | 8,449 | 6,889 | 200 | 5,610 | |||
| " | 11 | 11,231 | 6,799 | 6,605 | 718 | ||||
| " | 18 | 5,706 | 3,244 | 300 | 330 | ||||
| " | 25 | 6,588 | 1,939 | 3,735 | |||||
| 1898. | |||||||||
| Jan. | 1 | 4,349 | 3,521 | 7,469 | |||||
| " | 8 | 8,749 | 3,643 | 13,775 | 7,000 | ||||
| " | 15 | 11,158 | 5,587 | 9,920 | 8,500 | ||||
| " | 22 | 8,265 | 4,756 | 10,979 | |||||
| " | 29 | 10,979 | 4,376 | 5,634 | 480 | 952 | |||
| Feb. | 5 | 3,463 | 3,997 | 7,950 | 200 | 3,046 | 1,012 | ||
| " | 12 | 6,689 | 2,407 | 7,687 | 55 | 1,523 | |||
| " | 19 | 4,187 | 5,060 | 6,005 | 2,740 | ||||
| " | 26 | 6,613 | 2,293 | 4,704 | 350 | 2,108 | 1,500 | ||
| Mar. | 5 | 4,886 | 677 | 6,832 | |||||
| " | 12 | 6,005 | 2,375 | 4,963 | 230 | 2,702 | |||
| " | 19 | 6,497 | 1,048 | 6,294 | 135 | ||||
| " | 26 | 7,730 | 4,368 | 299 | |||||
| Apr. | 2 | 7,142 | 2,921 | 4,296 | |||||
| " | 9 | 6,863 | 2,163 | 2,077 | 685 | 4,999 | |||
| " | 16 | 5,783 | 293 | 1,258 | |||||
| " | 23 | 3,093 | 379 | 682 | |||||
| " | 30 | 1,190 | 519 | 1,270 | |||||
| May | 7 | 1,500 | |||||||
| June | 11 | 1,500 | |||||||
| Totals | 361,894 | 176,322 | 163,313 | 126,261 | 55 | 3,943 | 78,038 | 4,170 | |
THE APPLE BUSINESS.
By J. G. Thompson, of Edwardsville, Kan.
Often the title of a book or essay gives little information as to what will follow, and under "The Apple Business" there are a variety of subjects, on any one of which an essay might be written. In this short paper I shall speak of our foreign markets. A Kansas apple in London is a long way from home. But it is there, and not at all disconcerted by its strange surroundings. What is our apple doing there? Was it imported as a curiosity? Is it there as evidence of some venture or speculation? Neither; it has passed the experimental stage and is on a perfectly legitimate errand. It has gone over for English gold and will send the same back to its Kansas home. Now comes the interesting part, which makes business of the transaction. If profitable, it means prosperity; and a wave of prosperity is what the whole country needs, and when the wave comes there will be a lot of folks who will want to make the inundation permanent. Apples, on arriving in London or Liverpool, are sold at auction on the docks, immediately on arrival, usually in twenty-barrel lots. Of each lot two barrels are opened, one is poured out on a table, and one has the head removed so that the faced end may be seen. This is called a "show," and in the account of sales the "shows" are charged for at the rate of one shilling each.
AMERICAN APPLES ABROAD.
European receivers of American apples, represented by Chas. Forster, 76-78 Park Place, N. Y.
| Ports of Import. | |||||||
| Date. | Figures given represent barrels. | ||||||
| Liverpool. | London. | Glasgow. | Hamburg. | Various. | Total. | ||
| 1897. | |||||||
| Aug. | 7 | 168 | 33 | 201 | |||
| " | 14 | 185 | 47 | 232 | |||
| " | 21 | 455 | 374 | 829 | |||
| " | 28 | 1,113 | 495 | 1,608 | |||
| Sept. | 4 | 3,044 | 580 | 3,624 | |||
| " | 11 | 7,605 | 2,370 | 9,975 | |||
| " | 18 | 10,933 | 70 | 3,813 | 143 | 14,959 | |
| " | 25 | 12,960 | 2,494 | 6,425 | 657 | 250 | 22,786 |
| Oct. | 2 | 13,286 | 7,774 | 5,167 | 1,804 | 572 | 28,603 |
| " | 9 | 16,325 | 11,252 | 6,499 | 3,747 | 512 | 28,335 |
| " | 16 | 20,530 | 5,461 | 7,473 | 3,648 | 322 | 37,434 |
| " | 23 | 29,381 | 13,047 | 8,709 | 6,391 | 210 | 57,738 |
| " | 30 | 26,641 | 16,055 | 14,619 | 8,432 | 366 | 66,113 |
| Nov. | 6 | 39,615 | 9,449 | 18,897 | 8,371 | 1,791 | 78,123 |
| " | 13 | 33,631 | 4,338 | 7,579 | 6,650 | 566 | 52,764 |
| " | 20 | 29,167 | 11,226 | 18,288 | 13,755 | 1,113 | 73,549 |
| " | 27 | 26,308 | 7,169 | 3,588 | 7,686 | 1,886 | 46,637 |
| Dec. | 4 | 18,091 | 8,724 | 3,154 | 6,597 | 231 | 36,797 |
| " | 11 | 14,050 | 2,469 | 4,766 | 3,829 | 239 | 25,353 |
| " | 18 | 4,613 | 2,794 | 211 | 1,475 | 487 | 9,580 |
| " | 25 | 7,468 | 2,733 | 1,106 | 616 | 339 | 12,262 |
| 1898. | |||||||
| Jan. | 1 | 11,949 | 2,196 | 617 | 577 | 15,339 | |
| " | 8 | 19,486 | 9,428 | 709 | 2,644 | 900 | 33,167 |
| " | 15 | 17,747 | 11,952 | 1,450 | 4,011 | 5 | 35,165 |
| " | 22 | 16,332 | 4,885 | 1,316 | 567 | 23,100 | |
| " | 29 | 11,974 | 5,174 | 1,539 | 3,601 | 142 | 22,430 |
| Feb. | 5 | 3,546 | 4,987 | 417 | 718 | 19,668 | |
| " | 12 | 12,584 | 3,709 | 1,101 | 673 | 294 | 18,361 |
| " | 19 | 12,320 | 5,160 | 521 | 41 | 18,042 | |
| " | 25 | 10,234 | 4,656 | 1,353 | 1,325 | 17,568 | |
| Mar. | 5 | 8,431 | 3,284 | 100 | 505 | 75 | 12,395 |
| " | 12 | 9,192 | 6,389 | 424 | 270 | 16,275 | |
| " | 19 | 8,671 | 5,026 | 117 | 160 | 13,974 | |
| " | 26 | 7,747 | 4,078 | 381 | 191 | 12,397 | |
| April | 2 | 9,788 | 4,187 | 271 | 113 | 14,359 | |
| " | 9 | 6,917 | 8,493 | 1,192 | 185 | 16,787 | |
| " | 16 | 5,049 | 2,091 | 60 | 134 | 7,334 | |
| " | 23 | 2,059 | 2,095 | 4,154 | |||
| " | 30 | 543 | 2,436 | 2,979 | |||
| May | 7 | 1,500 | 1,500 | ||||
| June | 11 | 1,500 | 1,500 | ||||
| Totals | 490,138 | 198,281 | 123,828 | 88,780 | 12,969 | 913,996 | |
I have just received the apple catalogue of Woodall & Co., of Liverpool, England, giving a list of sales made by them of 2451 barrels of American apples, from the 3d to the 10th of this month [December, 1897]. This catalogue gives the mark, brand or owner's name on barrel, the name of the variety, condition of fruit, and whether tight or loose in the barrel, the name of the vessel on which the fruit arrived, the point from which it was shipped, and the gross proceeds of the sales of these 2451 barrels—1047 were from Canada and 1404 from the United States. Last year I sold for export 1000 barrels of apples. The buyer told me it was very difficult to carry barreled apples across the water in good condition. And that, owing to the peculiar motion of the ship, apples which were tight when loaded would be loose and bruised on arrival at Liverpool. You may judge of the correctness of this statement when I tell you that, in the account of sales of 153 barrels, 142 are reported as loose and 11 tight. They are not all that bad, for further on 212 are reported as 171 tight and 41 loose. Apples when loose lose from $1 to $1.75 in value; a lot of 12—8 Winesap and 4 York Imperial, loose—were sold for 15s. 3d. or $3.80 per barrel; 43 Winesaps, loose, brought 14s. 9d. or $3.68. Newtown Pippins bring the highest price, ranging from $5 to $9 per barrel.