THe JOURNAL 



OF 



NEW YORK 

 BOTANICAL 



Tfie ©eparfment of Mgricuffure. 



Vol. V. Part 7. 



8th July, 1907. 



FRUIT EXPORT SEASOX 11)07. 



/. G. Turner, Inspector under Coinineree Act. 



The fruit export season just concluded has been chiefly remarkable 

 for the great increase in the quantity exported. The total quantity shipped 

 through this season, to date, amounts to 131,083 cases of apples and 

 5,017 pears, .as aga.inst an output of 49,580 cases of apples and 2,486 

 cases of pears for last season. This represents an increase of 161 per 

 cent. Taking the history of this industry for the last eight years we Imd 

 that in the first \ear of that period onlv 11,000 rases were exported as 



A STRING OF TRUCKS. 

 13,000 cases of fruit are represented here. 



ngainst the abovementioned figures for the present season, showing a mag- 

 nificent and encouraging increase of aver 1,100 per cent. Another point 

 to be considered is that in addition to the export of green fruits a new 

 development has come about in the export of dried fruits. Prior to this 

 season little or no dried fruit was exported from this State excepting small 

 lots for inter-state trade. For this season the figures are likely to rival 

 in point of average yearly quantity those representing the green fruit trade. 

 Viewing these two departments of the frtiit trade as a whole the increase 

 6809. N 



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