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ELEVENTH ANNUAL REVIEW 



OP THE DRIED FRUIT, RAISIN, i'KI NE, ALMOND, WALNUT, PEANUT, COMB 

 AND EXTRA< TED HONEY CROP OF CALIFORNIA, FOB THE VKAi: . 



By Geobge W. Meade >v • o., San Francisco. 



It is witli pleasure thai we again lay before our friends, and the public 

 generally our annual review of the various ( lalifornia products above named. 



The great fruit industry of this State is making such tremendous strides; 

 ao many new sections have been quietly opened up to profitable cultivation; 

 so much virgin land in various sections of California is still untouched — 

 susceptible of producing in abundance every article thai we are now review- 

 ing, and a score or more of others on which we do not touch — that we are 

 fain to believe that this annual review, which we have taken upon our- 

 selves year by year, has been the menus, in ;i measure, at least, of demon- 

 strating to the outside world, and even to many of our own people, the 

 wonderful fertility of the soil of California, the almost unlimited variety of 

 products which can he produced in either one section of the State or the 

 other, and finally, the desirability and practicability of our well-beloved 

 California as a home. 



We therefore submit — 



THE I'KnlH'CT < >F IS.S5. 



Raisins, twenty-pound boxes -. 470,000 



French prunes, pounds 1,400,000 



German prunes, pounds _. 150,000 



Apples, sun-dried, pounds 1,073,000 



Peaches, sun-dried, p< rands 1,500,000 



Plums, sun-dried, pounds 1,021,000 



Pears, sun-dried, pounds 100,000 



Grapes, sun-dried, pounds ' 150,000 



Apricots, sun-dried, pounos 300,000 



Honey, extracted, pounds 1,500,000 



Honey, comb, pounds 75o,ihmi 



Beeswax, pounds r 60,000 



Nectarines, sun-dried, pounds . 30,000 



Figs, sun-dried, pounds 100,000 



Apples, evaporated, pounds 750,000 



Apricots, evaporated, pounds 350,000 



Peaches, evaporated (peeled) pounds 150,000 



Peaches, evaporated (unpeeled) pounds . 250,000 



Plums, evaporated, pounds 118,000 



Nectarines, evaporated, pounds . _. 50,000 



Walnuts, pounds 1,250,000 



Peanuts, pounds 518,000 



Almonds, pounds 1,050,000 



Of a total value of $3,500,000. 



The dried fruit product of California, 1885, requiring 110,000,000 pounds 

 of green fruit, which is equal to 5,500 cars of 20,000 pounds each. 



Raisins. — We estimate the total output of 1885 at 470,000 boxes, and 

 apportioned as follows: 



