CROPS AND PRICES. 



23 



1892. 1893. 



New Jersey 100 89 



Pennsylvania ,. .. 90 88 



Delaware 85 — 





1892. 



1893. 





1892. 



1893. 



Maryland, 



80 





West Virginia, 



85 



80 



Virginia, 



86 



90 



Kentucky, 



76 



812 



North Carolina, 



95 



92 



Ohio, 



90 



67 



South Carolina, 



80 



91 



Indiana, 



87 



68 



Georgia, 



89 



93 



Illinois, 



92 



71 



Florida, 



85 



96 



Iowa, 



82 



80 



Alabama, 



89 



81 



Missouri, 



90 



85 



Mississippi, 



78 



91 



Kansas, 



84 



66 



Louisiana, 



95 



87 



Nebraska, 



70 



62 



Texas, 



8G 



57 



Colorado, 

 Washington, 



110 



90 



Arkansas, 



97 



83 



110 





Tennessee, 



80 



82 



California, 



115 



98 



Tomatoes. — The Tomato crop as shown in the canned 

 product, was large, especially in the West. In many parts of 

 the East the severe drouths of midsummer shortened the crop, 

 often seriously. The American Grocer makes the following 

 comment upon the tomato output : "Although drouth and 

 other adverse climatic conditions reduced the crop in some sec- 

 tions, the tomato pack turns out to be the heaviest ever recorded, 

 being 32 per cent, larger than that of last year, which was 

 about equal to the average during the last seven years. It 

 reached the grand total of 4,456,443 cases of 2 dozens each, 

 against 3,366,792 cases in 1892, and 3,405,365 cases two years 

 ago. This large output is undoubtedly the result of the sharp 

 advance in prices of canned tomatoes during the first half of 

 1893, culminating in July, when No. 3 standard grade tomatoes 

 sold from $1.25 to $1.45, as against $1 to $1.15 in January. 

 This rise was due to the fact that stocks were exhausted at the 

 beginning of the packing season, as importations from England 

 and Canada were necessary in order to satisfy the demand. 

 The situation established a premium on tomato packing, so 

 that every kettle within reach was put in operation. The acre- 

 age in some sections, particularly in the West, was increased 

 nearly 50 per cent." The following table shows, approxi- 

 mately, the pack of 1893 as compared with that of 1892 in 

 cases of 2 dozen each : 



Note.— An excellent sketch of the truck-gardening industries of 

 the United States, by Maurice L, de Vilmorin, will be found in Journal 

 de V Agriculture, Paris, for Jan. 6, 13, 20 and 27, 1894. 



