HORTICULTURAL PROGRESS 



canned fruits had advanced to $371,118.50. 

 Ten years more, and it was over six hundred 

 thousand dollars. In the next decade the 

 foreign trade in fruits increased in a still more 

 significant manner, and in 1904 we exported 

 to the amount of $2,677,002. The increase in 

 the export of canned fruits and vegetables in 

 the decade from 1890 to 1900 was 350.4 per 

 cent. The dried fruit industry during the 

 period of the New Earth has had remarkable 

 growth. In 1895, when fruit-drying for home 

 and foreign markets was becoming popular, 

 we exported about fourteen millions of pounds 

 of prunes, but in 1904 over seventy-three 

 millions of pounds. Almost sixteen millions 

 of pounds of raisins were imported in 1895 as 

 against 6,800,000 pounds in 1904, while, along 

 with this import raisin trade under the im- 

 petus that has been given to American raisin 

 production, has developed an export trade in 

 raisins amounting now to nearly three hundred 

 thousand dollars annually. The amount of the 

 dried apples exported from the United States 

 in 1895 was a trifle over seven million pounds ; 

 in 1904 it was nearly fifty million pounds. A 

 generation ago, in 1870, the total value of all 



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