Part I. 



CHAPTER I. 



YIELDS AND PRICES OF 1889. 



In general, fruit crops have been under the average, and 

 prices have ruled good to high. The causes of the light crops 

 are difficult to determine. The failure in the apple crop in 

 many parts of the country is largely if not entirely the result 

 of very heavy crops last year. Cold weather, yellows and 

 insects have lessened the peach crop. Continued cold and wet 

 weather in most parts of the east has seriously interfered with 

 many fruits and vegetables. In a large part of the Mississippi 

 Valley and westward to the mountains there has been very 

 dry weather, and in many regions drought has been excessive. 

 Very dry weather early in the season lessened production in 

 some parts of the south. Late rains have injured the raisin, 

 grape and other crops of California. 



The apple crop has been light, as a whole. The large apple 

 growing districts of New York produced almost nothing for 

 market, and all through New England the production was 

 very small. In Illinois the crop was light to fair. Michigan, on 

 the contrary, produced an enormous crop, it being estimated 

 at a million barrels, probably half of the entire crop of the 

 United States. Missouri and Kansas also gave fair crops. 

 The western crop is in less demand for exportation than the 

 eastern, and as a consequence European shipments have been 

 comparatively small, and prices have ruled high. The total 

 exportations from North American ports for the week ending 



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