Transactions of the Maine State Pomological Society: For the Year 1904 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Transactions of the Maine State Pomological Society: For the Year 1904

The Cleveland Leader says the crop of salable apples in the United States this year is acknowledged a little less than fifty millions of barrels, which means something like 30,000,000,000 apples, or an apple every day for every man, woman and child in the United States. The editor remarks that these are tremendous figures, and the most surprising fact about the apple crop is that all of it might be grown in a single county in the state of Ohio, provided that all the trees were well matured and in good bearing condition.

Here in Maine the crop is about the same as last year, though some have placed the crop above a million barrels, and it is probable that more than 500,000 barrels will go forward to market. In some portions of the State dry weather affected the orchards, but the general conditions were favorable, though the Baldwins were generally of less size than usual. Insects and fungi have been less injurious, and winds and storms dealt kindly with orchards until late in the season. The early autumn frosts injured some of the lowland fruit, and the later frosts were still more injurious. There has been a scarcity of help, barrels have sold from 30 to 42 cents, and worse than all the price of fruit has been very low. As a result thousands of barrels of Maine apples were not harvested at all, and thousands of those that were were fed out to stock later in the season.
There were fewer buyers than usual and these started out at a dollar per barrel. Nearby fruits supplied the Boston market, where the price was off for everything save a few varieties.

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