FRUIT FIGURES 



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Weights of various varieties oj apples per bushel 



The following varieties, just from the trees in October, gave the 

 following weights for a heaped bushel (Michigan) : 



Baldwin .... 

 Belmont .... 

 Ben Davis . . . 

 Bunker Hill. . . 

 Cabashae . . . 

 Esopus Spitzenburgh 

 Rambo 



Rhode Island Greening 52 



Roxbury Russet 50 



Rubicon 46 



Stark . . 56 



Fallawater 48 



Golden Russet 53 



Lawyer 47 



Nickajack 51 



Northern Spy 46 



Pennock 47 



Swaar 51 



Sweet Bough 39 



Talman Sweet 48 



Tompkins King 44 



Yellow Bellefleur . . 46 



Dried fruit and cider 



A bushel of average apples gives from 6 to 1\ pounds of evap- 

 orated product. Seven pounds to the bushel is a good average. 



PRODUCT OP DRIED RASPBERRIES (W . J. Green) 



Ohio . 



Hiflborr 



9 



Ib. to the bu. 

 Ib. to the bu. 

 Ib. to the bu. 



Ada 8^ Ib. to the bu. 



Tyler 8> Ib. to the bu. 



Shaffer 8 Ib. to the bu. 



In general, three and one-fourth quarts (about four pounds) of fresh 

 black-cap raspberries are required for a pound of marketable dried 

 berries. 



A pound of dried peaches may be made from four or five pounds of 

 fresh fruit, if the variety has a dry flesh ; but six or seven pounds is 

 often required. 



In California, twenty pounds of grapes produce six or seven pounds 

 of raisins. 



From seven to twelve bushels of apples are required for a barrel of 

 cider. 



Various estimates. 



Raspberries contain from one and one-half to three pounds of seeds 

 to the bushel. 



A pint of garden blackberries weighs about one pound. 



Good clusters of American grapes weigh on an average from one-half 

 to three-fourths pound, while extra-good clusters will reach a pound 

 and a half. Clusters have been reported which weighed two pounds. 



A bushel of sweet corn ears, " in the milk," with the husks which 

 come from it, weighs from fifty to seventy pounds. 



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