CROPS AND PRICES. 



3 





1892 



1893 





1892 



1893 



Maine, 



83 



35 



West Virginia, 





<ift 



New Hampshire, 



89 



35 



Kentucky, 



50 



•*ft 



Vermont, 



75 



60 



Ohio, 

 Michigan, 



25 



9 



Massachusetts, 



75 



40 



40 





Rhode Island, 



65 



46 



Indiana, 



21 



9 



Connecticut, 



55 



50 



Illinois, 



19 



10 



New York, 



64 



41 



Wisconsin , 



60 



48 



New Jersey, 



58 



64 



Minnesota, 



7ft 



62 



Pennsylvania, 



55 



55 



Iowa, 



50 



30 



Delaware, 



20 



60 



Missouri, 



28 



18 



Maryland, 

 Virginia, 



*?n 

 oU 



77 



Kansas, 



25 



19 



36 



79 



Nebraska, 



30 



35 



North Carolina, 



54 



67 



South Dakota, 



~ 



73 



South Carolina, 



65 



67 



Colorado, 



70 



40 



Georgia, 



75 



56 



N^ew^ jMexico 



85 



72 



Florida, 





65 



Arizona, 





50 



Alabama, 



83 



55 



Utah, 



70 



67 



Mississippi, 



70 



56 



Nevada, 





35 



Louisiana, 



75 



67 



Idaho, 





97 



Texas, 



55 



58 



Washington, 



65 



74 



Arkansas, 



56 



59 



Oregon , 



60 



85 



Tennessee, 



55 



64 



California, 



75 



96 



Deductions from the Figures. — It will be seen that all the 

 important apple-growing States show a decided falling off, even 

 from the low yields of 1892, bnt there are slight gains in the 

 Middle Atlantic States and in the Pacific Northwest. The most 

 remarkable estimates in the list are the extremely low yields of 

 the interior belt stretching from Ohio to Kansas, indicating 

 that some influence or condition common to a great area must 

 have been at the bottom of the failure. The cause most com- 

 monly assigned for the disastrous failures of apples in recent 

 years is the rapid spread of the scab-fungus early in the season ; 

 but while this may be the chief cause, it is evident that other 

 agencies must be concerned in this wholesale devastation. The 

 past few years have been seasons of heavy bloom, but the fruits 

 have failed to set. Orchards which have been persistently 

 sprayed with fungicides during tw^o or three years appear to 

 have given fair crops this year ; and there are small areas in 

 Canada, New England and New York w T hich have given fair or 

 even good crops. 



Exportation of Apples. — The extent of the apple yield is 

 reflected in the export trade, which has been remarkably light, 

 as the following figures, recording the number of barrels of the 

 crop of 1893 shipped from all American to European ports up 

 to and including December 30, 1893, will show: 





To Liver- 

 pool. 



To 

 London. 



To 

 Glasgow. 



To vari- 

 ous parts. 



Total. 



This season 



Last season, to date. 



63,160 

 585,168 



8,754 

 114,832 



35T8"23~ 

 192,921 



3,230 

 9,723 



110,967 

 902,644 





522,008 



] 06,078 



157,098 



6,493 



800,921 



