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decline after that year. I think its recovery is directly 

 attributable to the placing of a protective tariff duty 

 upon Zante currants (a competitor of raisins), towards 

 the accomplishment of which this Board exerted a very 

 considerable influence. To the present schedule of duties 

 is due also a better feeling as to the citrus industry. 

 The large increase in wines and brandy gives evidence 

 of better times for the producer. The increase was about 

 30 per cent over 1897." 



I now append a table showing the gains of ten years. 



Of canned fruits put up in cans weighing two and a half 

 pounds, and packed in cases containing two dozen cans, 

 we find in 1888, 1,368,000 cases, and in 1899, 2,900,000 

 cases. Of fresh fruit sent East in 1895, there were 4,568 

 carloads against 6,469 carloads in 1899. Of oranges, there 

 were 1,325,000 boxes exported in 1895, against 3,654,000 

 boxes in 1899. I cannot quote the figures for 1888. 



In looking over the above tables, it will be noted that 

 the crop of apricots and peaches in 1899 was small. The 

 crop of 1897 in apricots (dried fruits exported) was 

 30,000,000, and the exported crop of dried peaches in 

 the same year 27,150,000. 



