266 New York at the World's Columbian Exposition. 



in great demand in its fresh lorm for canning, drying and evaporating, 

 and in the latter form is sent to foreign markets in large quantities. 

 Like the plum, the tree has one serious enemy in a disease known as 

 the " Yellows," which of late years has made serious inroads in the 

 profits of peach culture. The presence of the disease is discovered by 

 the foliage, changing early in the summer from its natural bright green 

 color to that of yellow, the fruit ripening prematurely before fully 

 grown, and the trees showing a general tendency toward decline. The 

 best scientific ability of our country has thus far been bafiled to fully 

 understand the nature and cause of the disease, its treatment and pre- 

 vention. Some of the newer States are wisely enacting legislation to 

 keep this dreaded disease out of their territory by establishing a system 

 of inspection and quarantine of all trees that are imported. 



Canned Fkuits and VEaETABLES. 



This class was fully represented in a way calculated to show the 

 extent and importance of the canning industry in New York. The 

 season in which strawberries, raspberries and other small fruits, cher- 

 ries, peaches, plums, and the summer and autumn fruits can be used in 

 fresh form is limited, but when put in cans, preserved, made into jams, 

 jellies and marmalades, they can be had at any time or season, and, 

 with the perfection that is now brought to the method of preserving, 

 their fine flavors are maintained nearly equal to the fresh fruit. Among 

 exhibitors who made very extensive contributions to the State exhibit 

 were Gordon & Dilworth, of New York, and Curtice Brothers & Co., 

 of Rochester, who have extensive factories, employ large numbers of 

 men and women, purchase many carloads. of fruits and vegetables, and 

 supply both foreign markets and home consumers. 



Evaporated Fruits. 



There was excellent display in this class, which represents a com- 

 paratively new but very rapidly-developing industry. A. B. "Williams, 

 of Sodus, Wayne county, exhibited evaporated apples, red and black 

 raspberries. In 1892 Wayne county produced 10,000,000 pounds of 

 evaporated apples, 5,000,000 pounds of apple waste, known as skins 

 and cores dried, and 900,000 pounds of evaporated raspberries, of 

 vhich three-eighths of this entire quantity was produced in the town 

 of Sodus. 



Michael Doyle & Co., of Eochester, made an excellent display, com- 

 prising the following collection : Two cases Eochester pippins, two 

 cases evaporated apples, one case sun-dried apples, one case chopped 

 apples, one case apple waste, one case dried plums, one case dried cher- 

 ries, one case evaporated peaches, one case dried whortleberries, one 

 case evaporated red raspberries, one ease evaporated black raspberries, 

 and one case dried blackberries. 



Vegetable Department. 

 To attempt an exhibition of green vegetables nearly 1,000 miles 

 away from New York, to cover a period continuously for six months, 



