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New System
Bill Huehn, apple buyer for National Fruit in Winchester. explains that the two schedule price system is new this year. He says the National Fruit computer calculates each load by both schedules “A" and “B" and selects the schedule that yields the better price foY the grower. Each value depends on the size of the majority of apples in the load. The company pays 25c extra per hundredweight of Jersey red, romes, staymans, and yorks for the 2% inch portion if 55 percent or more of the load is inches and up.
Under schedule "A", growers get $6.75 per hundred weight for apples 2% inches and up, $5.25 for apples sized 21/_*-2:i/i inches and $3.25 for apples under 21/-: inches. Schedule “B" pays $6.25 for all apples 2‘/2 inches and up and $3.25 for those under 2'/>.
Huehn says the company is not presently in the market for juice apples, but plans to start paying $3.50 per hundred weight for drop apples suitable for canning starting this week.
The prices are retroactive1 to Labor Day, the start of the official apple season, Huehn says. Because of the new schedules and the drought’s effect of smaller apples, Huehn hesitated to
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