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Rappahannock apples leave the Sperryville packing house and travel to a wide market, although not as wide as it once was. At one time, says Lucio Kilby, Finland was one of the biggest customers of Rappahannock apples. :‘But then the Communists took over,” he said. Either Communists don’t eat many apples, or the Finns would rather buy from their Russian comrades.
KILBY SAID the Rappahannock co-op doesn’t do any selling abroad at all, right now, and a visit by Fred W. Burrows last week might have been related. Burrows is director of marketing services for the International Apple Institute, and he agreed with Kilby that right now the European apple market is being dominated by French orchardists. ‘‘It’s just too much trouble to sell overseas anymore,” said Kilby, and left it at that.
But there’s no trouble in finding a market for Rappahannock apples elsewhere. From Sperryville, apples are shipped to the A & P,
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