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November 30th were 417,421 barrels, against 879,096 for the 

 corresponding week in 1888. This may be considered an 

 average measure of the extent of foreign shipment this year 

 as compared with last. The apple crop of Europe was light, 

 on the whole. England had a small crop, Scotland fair, 

 France and Belgium very poor, Holland small, Germany fair 

 to good. Denmark has had a large and fine crop, how- 

 ever, and the fruit has come into direct competition with the 

 American product. Northern Spain has also put considerable 

 fruit upon the English market, for the first time in the history 

 of active American exportation. 



Tasmania is now sending apples tp the English markets. 

 The first shipments from Tasmania to London were made 

 about three years ago, They come on the market after the 

 shipments from North America and Europe have ceased, and 

 therefore command good prices. They closely resemble 

 American apples in color and general appearance. These 

 southern fruits cannot compete with the American product, 

 however, as they arrive out of season and the price paid for 

 American apples would not be remunerative to Tasmanian 

 growers.. The long distance through which they must be 

 transported demands thorough packing. They arrive in 

 crates holding about 40 pounds of fruit. 



Peaches were generally a light crop in the eastern United 

 States. The orchards on the Delaware and Chesapeake 

 peninsula produced less than half a full crop, and probably 

 less than two-thirds an average crop. The larger yields were 

 in the lower two-thirds of the peninsula. In the northern 

 counties hundreds of orchards gave no crop ; a few yielded 

 sparingly and a very few produced a nearly full crop on some 

 varieties. Prices on the peninsula have ruled high. Along 

 the railroad in Delaware the best yellow fruit sold for $1 to 

 $1.40 per basket of five-eighths bushel. A poor quality of 

 white fruit brought from 40 to 60 cents, and the best white 

 fruit sold as high as 90 cents and $1. The Michigan crop 

 was light but fine. The center of peach growing in the 

 famous Michigan fruit belt lies in Allegan county, but the crop 

 there was exceedingly light, while in Berrien county, at the 

 southern limit of the peach growing district, the crop was 

 fair. In Southern Illinois the crop was poor, owing, in large 

 measure, to the depredations of insects. Through the south 



