APPENDIX 



I. IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF FRUIT, 

 UNITED STATES 



The following tables, showing the imports and ex- 

 ports of fruits, are taken directly or indirectly from the 

 reports of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United 

 States. Those indirectly secured come by way of a 

 paper prepared by Mr. W. A. Taylor for the United 

 States Department of Agriculture Year Book, 1897, 

 page 305. This important article has not attracted the 

 attention it deserves. It brings out, by means of 

 statistics and text, the interesting fact that home- 

 grown fruits are being rapidly substituted for foreign- 

 grown fruits of many kinds. This condition is further 

 established by the additional statistics given below. 



Take, for example, the items of raisins and prunes. 

 The importations of these fruits increased steadily and 

 enormously from 1830 up to 1890, but from that time 

 have fallen ofE quite remarkably. This is due, of 

 course, to the establishment of the raisin grape industry 

 in California and of large prune orchards all along the 

 western coast. In this direct connection there should 

 be noted the other fact that, while importations have 

 been greatly reduced, the United States has actually 



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