Evaporated Raspberries. 



I. THE EVAPOEATOR. 



ESTERN-New York leads the 

 world in the production of dried, 

 raspberries. Something like 1,500 tons 

 of the evaporated product are marketed 

 each year. Of this about 1,000 tons are produced in "Wayne 

 county, in which the towns of Williamson 'and Sodus, which pro- 

 duce nearly or quite half of the amount, are the most important 

 centers. Marion, in Wayne county, is also a heavy producer of 

 dried berries. Outside of Wayne county, the region tributary to 

 Dundee, Yates county, is the most important center of the dried 

 raspberry industry. The product sold at Dundee is probably 

 upwards of 150 tons each year. Many berries are also dried south 

 and east of Dundee, in Schuyler coiunty, round about Watkins. In 

 Niagara county the industry has become established at Somerset,^ 

 where about 20 tons are produced each year. There are also many 

 persons who dry raspberries in other parts of the fruit regions of 

 western New York, and the industry is gradually enlarging as peo- 

 ple come to learn that it affords a means of making the grower inde- 

 pendent of the open market. 



Yet the visitor might inquire in vain for dried raspberries in 

 many of the stores in this western New York country. In other 

 words, the product is not largely consumed in this State. It is used 

 mostly west and northwest of Chicago. Probably four-fifths of the 

 product is consumed in lumber and mining camps, and on the 

 plains, where fresh fruit is scarce. None of it, so far as I know, i& 



