REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE. 



121 



Up to the same date there were shipped from Oregou, as 

 near as can be ascertained : 



Boxes. 



For Liverpool 42,000 



P'or London 27,000 



For Glasgow 6,000 



For Hamburg 3,()00 



For various ports 3,000 



Total 81,600 



From the present outlook of stocks on hand it is safe to 

 predict that the total European shipment from Oregon will 

 reach one hundred and fifty thousand boxes. 



By way of comparison, I may state that the fruits exported 

 to Germany alone amounted to $456,656 in 1899, and, up to 

 December 1, 1900, to $1,416,596, an increase of over two 

 hundred per cent. 



world's prune crop. 



<'aHfornia : 



Oregon and Washington- 

 France 



Bosnia and Servia 



Totals . 



1899. 

 Pounds. 



114,227,000 



6,000,000 



20,000,000 



110,000,000 



250,227,000 



1900. 

 Pounds. 



12.5,000,000 

 Io,00H,(^K) 

 110,000,000 

 8:3,000,000 



313,000,000 



Notwithstanding this large increase, our fine Fellenbergs 

 (Italians), and known in eastern markets as the "Oregon 

 Prune,'' brought very good figures, ranging from four and 

 one-half cents per pound for early sales to six and one-fourth 

 cents for later sales for thirties to forties, while the French 

 prunes sold for two to three cents for the four sizes, sixty to 

 one hundred to the pound. In this connection permit me 

 once more to refer to 



EVAPORATORS AND FRUIT EVAPORATION. 



In speaking to dealers, packers and shippers I find the uni- 

 versal complaint of lack of uniformity in evaporated prunes 

 from the various growers, and only for this reason I refer to 

 this subject again. 



The construction of evaporators on correct principles, and 

 the art of evaporating fruit, has engrossed the minds of 

 scientists and laymen alike, both at home and abroad, and it 

 seems as 3'et we have not reached the wished-for goal, but we 

 are on a fair way to do it. 



