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the highest price, and reaching the trade in perfect condition. They 

 have been selling by the commission houses at $3.00 per box, the con- 

 sumer paying four cents each. California Gravensteins are also in 

 the market, but are not the choice when Oregons can be secured. 



DRIED AND PRESERVED FRUITS, ETC. 



The total Imports of dried plums and prunes such as are produced 

 in the Northwest into Great Britain, amount to $1,285,000. The total 

 importation from the United States of fruits preserved with and with- 

 out sugar other than dried fruits is about $1,500,000, the larger Pro- 

 portion of which comes from California. There is imported from the 

 United States, prunes, plums, and dried fruits to the value of $335,000. 

 largely the French prune from California, with a small proportion of 

 the Oregon prune from the north. 



Dried currants pay a duty of 48 cents per cwt. Dried figs, plums, 

 prunes, raisins, etc., pay a duty of $1.68 per cwt. Preserved fruits 

 also pay a duty of $1.68 per cv/t. 



FRANCE. 



France is primarily a fruit producing country, producing pears and 

 apples, prunes and other fruits, not alone for her own consumption, 

 but extensively for exportation. Our markets there, however, are 

 extremely limited, and even the surrounding countries export very few 

 apples and pears into France. The total importation for table use in 



1908 amounted to about 25,000 busheis, 20,000 of which came from the 

 United States. 



The apples from the United States pay a duty into France of about 

 10 cents per bushel. This is the minimum tariff rate which the United 

 States enjoys. The maximum rate is just double this amount. Fresh 

 pears pay a minimum duty of 12% cents per bushel. Dried apples 

 and dried pears pay per cwt. four times that of the fresh fruit. Dried 

 prunes pay a duty of five times per cwt. of that on fresh apples. 



The total exports of table apples and pears fresh from France in 



1909 amounted to something over $2,000,000. One and a half million 

 dollars' worth was in pears exported into Great Britain. Dried Drunes 

 exported amounted to about $2,500,000, and the value of nuts 

 exported amounted to $2,700,000. This does not include almonds, chest- 

 nuts, and peanuts. Statistics in France give the total production of 

 apples and pears for table use for 1907 at about $5,000,000. The nro- 

 duction of apples and pears for eider and perry making amounted to 

 $12,000,000. Plums and prunes amounted to $4,500,000. What fruit 

 is imported into France of such varieties as v/ould be produced in 

 the Northwest come into the markets at a different time of the year 

 from the French fruits and at a different time of the year from those 

 which we could export to that country. It seems to me, therefore, 

 that it is hardly worth while to anticipate any market in France for our 

 fruit products. 



The total quantity of eider manufactured in France in 1908 amounted 

 to 100,000,000 galloiis. 



GERMANY. 



Next to Great Britain, Germany oflFers perhaps the best market 

 for our fruits. This market, however, has not yet been as well sup- 

 plied or exploited as the market of Great Britain with fruits from the 

 Pacific Coast of the United tSates. 



APPLES. 



The greater per cent of apple importations comes from Italy, next 

 Austria-Hungary, next Switzerland, then the Netherlands, then Bei- 



