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THE FRUIT INDUSTRY IN NEW YORK STATE 



although within a few years it came into the hands of New York 

 City dealers. Next came the advent of the brokers in cities, and 

 from 1907 to 1910 the volume of business largely shifted from 

 the cities to Rochester, New York, where a system of trading be- 

 tween local dealers was initiated as a result of the efforts of one 

 or two brokers. The crop is now sold five to eight times over in 

 a speculative way, owing to the ease of obtaining reliable informa- 

 tion on probable crop conditions as early as January in any given 

 year. 



FIG. 281. FACED END OF Box OF FANCY EVAPO- 

 RATED APPLES. 



We have a small business with South America and South Africa 

 but the large bulk of our export business is with Germany. One 

 German importer alone increased the volume of his business from 

 thirty to forty cars in 1893 and to two hundred cars in 1905, and 



