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fruit amounted t(i scvenly-onc per cent 

 of tlie total valuation of deciduous 

 fruit produced in the state, according 

 to the last census. Only in regions 

 having a sullicienlly warm and dry 

 climate, as (Ireeee, Turkey, parts of 

 France, Spain and C.alifornia is sun 

 curing of fruit practiced on a commer- 

 cial scale. Fruit may also be cured in 

 drying devices known as evai)orators; 

 in which case the product is known as 

 evaporated fruit, while the sun-cured 

 fruit is usually spoken of as dried fruit. 

 About three-fourths of the cured fruit 

 produced in this country is sun dried 

 and probably always will be, for the 

 only limitation to the curing is the 

 number of acres of sunshine in the 

 favored sections of the arid states. 

 Drying, therefore, is a more economical 

 process of curing than evaporation. 



The second great fruit canning and 

 curing state is New York, and a brief 

 consideration of apple evaporation in 

 this state may be of interest at this 

 time. This industry approaches more 

 nearly the by-product side of the fruit 

 business than most fruit-preserving 

 industries. In writing on this subject, 

 in Better Fhuit, Mr. D. W. Seely of 

 Sodus Point, Wayne County, New- 

 York, writes as f(dlows: "Until recent 

 years in Wayne County, New York, 

 practically everything was dried, and 

 this made a very fine grade of evapo- 

 rated fruit which commanded a big 

 price, and still does." It is interest- 

 ing to note further in Mr. Seely's dis- 

 cussion that the growers actually re- 

 ceived for their crop during the year 

 1912, fi-oni ,30 to .3,") cents per hundred. 

 The apples evaporated down to about 

 thirteen pounds per hundred on the 

 average and sold for six cents per 

 pound. In speaking of an evaporator 

 with a ninety l)ushel daily capacity the 

 same authority tpiotes the following in- 

 teresting figures: 



Cost of 90 bushels of ilnples .«l.').(l(l 



Cost of evaporation, including labor, fuel, 



sulphur and overseeing 12.00 



$27.00 

 .')"') lbs. of evaporated apples at 6 cents; 



about 280 lbs. of waste at 95% $.17.08 



Net profit in handling 90 bushels apples 

 (not considering taxes, depreciation 

 and interest on dryer), one day's run. . 10.00 



Under the assumption of a plant of 

 this size being owned by a non-i)rofit 

 co-operative association the growers 

 would have received 27.8 cents per 

 bushel for their apples instead of 

 about 1().,T cents per bushel, or fO.fid 

 per ton selling to the evaporator. 



The writer is not aware of any sum- 

 marization of the operative costs in a 

 large number of factories. The above 

 account, however, was written as 

 tvpical of the largest evaporated apple 

 area in the United States, .\gain, 

 wholesale jjrices fluctuate both above 

 and below the rate ((i cents per ixiund) 

 hertofore mentioned. At pieseiit the 

 highest grades of evaporated apples are 

 ([uoted from ()V.> to 7% cents i)er 

 Ijound in the San Francisco markets. 



while last summer 

 about ,"> cents per 

 reports from New 

 a ten-year average 



the figures fell to 

 ])ound. The latest 

 York show that in 

 , growers received 



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New York is the greatest of all apple- 

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