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by the consumer for the transportation, commissions and profits in- 

 crease the cost several times. A larger proportion of the crop may 

 now be exported, but the great change has been in the creation of 

 a home demand for fresh fruit, such as does not exist in any other 

 country. The great fruit market of the world is the American work- 

 man, and his staple fruit is the apple. 



The magnitude of the apple crop. Of the total number of orchard trees 

 reported in 1900, 55 per cent were apple, and these produced 83 per 



TABLE 2. 



Relative rank in fruit production of the ten leading fruit-producing states, from the 



census of IQOO. 



Leading fruit counties in Neiu York. 



Rank. 



r 4 



- 5 

 ;' 7 



10 



3 



15 

 9 



