A GLIMPSE AT MICHIGAN HORTICULTUKE. 

 Total Shipments for 1871-2. 



85 



The statistics of fruit shipments from Berrien county from 1872 to 1878, 

 have not been preserved. The area of production was gradually extended ; the 

 facilities for transportation afforded by fruit trains inducing more attention to 

 fruit-growing along the line of the 0. & W. M. R. E. north and south of St. 

 Joseph. Through the courtesy of A. M. Nichols, general freight and passenger 

 agent of this road, we have the following complete shipments to Chicago by 

 fruit train during the past three years. This table gives the shipments from 



