CORRESPONDENCE EAT MORE FRUIT.

Evening Star, Issue 18532, 15 January 1924, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE

EAT MORE FRUIT.

TO THU EDITOR. Sir, —I notice in Saturday night’s ‘ Star ’ ain article headed ‘ Eat More Fruit. Can Prices be Lowered?’ Instead of the latter phrase a much better one would bo ‘ Can the Quality bo Improved?’ You say we hear a lot about the- low figures obtained by the grower. Yes, certainly, by the grower who sends in poor quality, second and third grade fruit, but not by the grower who sends in only good fruit. Some of the apricots and peaches coming on the market this Hast week or itwio are a disgrace to any grower. Should this poor, third-grade fruit bo dumped instead of sent to tlha -market, the price of prime fruit would rule at a more even price. Some people anight argue that this dumping would affect the working people, but I maintain that it would not. For instance, if a case of stone fruit of the Dtbird quality costs 3s, a. case of a -better grade at 4s, although higher in cost, would be the cheaper in the end, as when the stones ere taken out there would be more actual fruit in the latter and of a better quality. Of late the tendency of purchasers has been “quality, not quantity,” and I think you will agree with mo they are quite ! right.—l am, etc., Forty Years Wholesale, January 14.