Report of State Board of Horticulture. 



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FRUIT REPORT FOR THE UNITED STATES FOR AUGUST, 190-'. 

 i:>tiin;it('d percentage of a full crop. 



Careful estimates, compiled from final reports made by 

 the commissioners of the five horticultural districts of the 

 state, made in October, of the 1902 fruit crop, are as follows : 



Apples S fi.^9,000 00 



Apples, cured and manufactured into cider and vinegar 100,000 tK» 



Prunes, cured r)20,(K)0 00 



Prunes, fresh lo,0(X) 00 



Peaches 92,0(J0 00 



Peaches, cured 10,000 00 



Pears 90.000 00 



Pears, cured 10,000 00 



(irapes 4S,000 00 



Cherries 33,000 00 



Strawberries 162,000 00 



♦Small fruits (crab apples, apricots, nectarines, plums, raspberries, 



blackberries, currants, gooseberries) 470,000 00 



Total 8;2,'J39,00O 00 



Notwithstanding the prune crop of the state was forty per 

 cent short of last year's crop, the grand total of fruit products 

 for the year 1902 falls but little short of 1901, the most pros- 

 perous fruit year in our history. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



GEO. H. LAMBERSON, 



Secretary. 



* In districts one, two, and three, strawberries are included in small fruits. 



