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buyers of fruits that they neglect or overlook our native 

 fruits, although their flavor is decidedly better than that of 

 the southern products. These unfavorable conditions will 

 have still greater importance if the tariff upon foreign 



mentioned. There are a great mam fruits which succeed so 

 well in Germany that foreign competition will effect them but 

 little, if at all. The German dessert apples can never be 

 excluded from our markets for any length of time, on account 

 of their superior flavor. Morello and other sour cherries are 



parts of the country that the foreign article can be dispensed 

 with. Nevertheless we cannot get along without foreign fruit, 

 for when our crops fail the countless preserving and evapor- 



factories, for in such regions as Wiirttemberg large numbers 

 of them may be found, and they are prepared every year k> 



three months from September to November, i SSi, 7,004 car- 

 loads of fruit were shipped into Wurttemberg; of these, 5,688 

 came from Austria and Switzerland. On the average, five 

 marks were paid per cwt. Our growers should aim to supply 

 the home demand in the future so far as it can possibly be 

 done, and all plantings which are made should be of such a 



Statistics of the importation and exportation of fresh, dry 



The statistics have been made public by the Royal Minister 

 of Agriculture for Prussia. They show that the exportation 

 of fresh fruit from the years 1880 to 1889 was 2,494,513 dewt.,* 

 while the importation was 5,980,864 dewt. This is 3,- 

 486,351 dewt. in favor of the exports. 



The difference is still greater when we consider the dry and 

 preserved fruit, for during the same years only 40,^33 dewt. 



an excess of 2,375,762 dewt. in favor of the importers. 



