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cluction taking care of the pocirer 

 grades. The L'nifefl States ships a godd 

 proportion of the apples consumeil. 

 Canada and South Africa also supply 

 some. This market is characterized by 

 irregular shipments and fluctuates 

 badly. Denmark, Norway and Russia 

 buy our fruit. One million pounds of 

 apples and pears were exported from 

 this country to Norway in IfllO. Amer- 

 ican apples brought in this year .$4.86 

 lo !f().()7 per wholesale barrel, in 

 Stavanger, but shipment to the markets 

 of all three of these countries is very 

 expensive, since it includes repacking, 

 or at least reloading at English ports. 

 There are some home-grown red apples 

 in Denmark, but .American apples are 

 imijorted through Iland)urg and the 

 I'^nglish cities, to Denmark. 



In Russia there seems to be no chance 

 for increased sales. Very little fruit is 

 eaten and the country is measurably 

 self-supplying. C.onclitions in The 

 Netherlands are similar to those in Hel- 

 gium, and though theie are excessively 

 high import freight rates at Rotterdam, 

 a few American apples find their way 

 to that country. This completes the 

 survey of the countries shipped to via 

 the English Channel. 



In past years Austria-Hungary has 

 paid very high prices for a limited 

 amount of the best fruit; well-to-do 

 classes have purchased American fruit 

 out of the fresh-fruit season in that 

 country. Hothouse out-of-season Aus- 

 tialian fruit shipped in ,^5-lb. wooden 

 packages has brought excessively high 

 prices there. 



There is, generally speaking, no mar- 

 ket for American fresh fruit in any of 

 the Mediteiranean countries. These 

 countries ])roduce such an enormous 

 amount of fresh fruit at prices with 

 which it is impossible to compete that 

 there appears to be no opportunity for 

 American fruit interests in that legion. 



In the Northwest, .\sia is generally 

 thought of as a big market for apples, 

 but as a matter of fact only small cpian- 

 tities of first-class stock is demanded. 

 Only the most wealthy classes of na- 

 tives in these densely populated coun- 



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 Los Angeles Fresno Portland Seattle Salt Lake City 



tries c'iin piuchase Anierifiui apples, 

 and these few, with the small foreign 

 colonies in the larger cities, make up 

 the market. Hongkong imported 11,0(1(1 

 boxes of apples from all countries in 

 1!)12-13, and of these 2,(100 boxes came 

 from Hood River by way of Seattle, 

 and (1,000 were second and third-class 

 apides from San Francisco. Certain 

 Western growers can supply this mar- 

 ket to advantage, but it is a tpiestion of 

 individual business relations and not 

 at all a normal market. 



Australia impoits dried fiiiil and ex- 

 ports fresh fruit. They are strong com- 

 petitors of our apples, though they are 

 always marketed in the opposite season. 

 The following figures and tables are 

 from the "Ollicial Year Book of the 

 Commonwealth of Australia" (Boston 

 public library). 47,749 acres of fruit 

 were i)lanted in Australia in the last 

 ten years. The main increase in Tas- 

 mania (1(5,383) and Western Australia 

 (12,118) is due to the extensive plant- 

 ings of apple trees with a view to the 

 London market for fresh fruit. 



Taht.i: XVI. — Totvi, Acres Ohchabiis ami Fhut 



(wardens and Ac.RliS PER One Thocsand 



Population for Australia. 



A crcs per 



toon 



Yi'itrs Acres I'i>i>uhilii)n 



1!llll-1!l(i2 1 l(),77ri :w 



VMM-V.WH l(ii),2il!l 11 



1!l(l.S-IiMI!l 171.r)."»S 11 



i!i(>:i-i:nii I78.7ii8 n 



iiniM'.ni I85,i.'.r) 12 



I!M1-1!I1-' l!)4,.-i2l 1.1 



Note — AiisliMlion liiiil ranges I'roni the iTopii- 

 |iinc';ini>lr oml inoiiKo to the tcni])ci:ilc apple, 

 strn\vl)eri->' and ^;<Hisebcrry. 



Australian fresh-fruit imports con- 

 sists chietly of bananas from Fiji; 

 oranges and lemons from Italy, and 

 out-of-season ai)ples from Canada. 

 Their 1011 fresh-fruit exports amounted 

 to t.J20,780 (£504 of this was re-ex- 

 l)orled). This finiit was chielly ai)i)les, 

 and they were sent to the Inited King- 

 dom, (iermany. New Zealand, Brazil, 



L'. S. A. and India. The following table 

 gives an idea of the fruit trade of the 

 commonwealth: 



'I'ahi.e XVII. — Australia's Net Imports of Dried 



1'ruit and Net Exports of Fresh Fruit. 



net imports of drii:d fruit 



Qiiiiitlitii. 



Year I'tnintts Vntue 



liioi ]:!,i:%;'„73."> t:iii.").ii!i:i 



1907 ,S,(l()(l,(IOI) :>7.S(i I 



1!I(I8 8,11011, 0(10 (ll,i:i!» 



111(19 12.000,0(10 108,(1 11; 



1910 9,000,000 7i,:ni 



1911 5,000,000 J.-),0I2 



net exports of fresh fruit 

 Qtiantiltf, 



Year Cenltds Value 



19('l £11, n:)] 



1 907 2 1(1.182 1 7,.")9 1 



1908 21 1,.")S,-) 19.2."i7 



1909 121,997 IS. ins 



1910 :!2('>,92S 19. ."il:! 



1911 :ii:',.08S 12,.->92 



Of preserved fruit in 1911 Australia inii>iirled 

 £Ci7,Cj2(I worth and exported 1:29,2 l.'>. 



The following figures and c|uotalions 

 from the 1013 New Zealand Ollicial 

 Year Book are of interest, more as pro- 

 duction figures of a competing country 

 than as apiilying to a prospective for- 

 eign market: "Each succeeding year 

 shows a marked increase in area 

 planted to commercial orchards in the 

 Dominion." For the four years ending 

 December, 1012, 7,413 acres were 

 planted, and 2,420 acres were estimated 



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