Fruits, Vegetables and General Interests. 1 1 



report of the Department of Agriculture, is given below. The 

 figures represent the product as compared with a full average 

 crop : 



Maine 92 



Massachusetts. . .100 



New York 100 



Delaware 100 



North Carolina. . 63 



Florida 81 



Louisiana 85 



Tennessee 68 



Ohio 69 



Illinois 89 



Missouri 80 



California 100 



Colorado 81 



Utah 100 



New Hampshire . 100 

 Rhode Island .... 100 



New Jersey 100 



Maryland 99 



South Carolina.. 57 



Alabama 51 



Texas 77 



West Virginia... 82 



Michigan 69 



Wisconsin 63 



Kansas 93 



Oregon 97 



Idaho 87 



Washington 93 



Vermont 91 



Connecticut .... 94 



Pennsylvania... 93 



Virginia 86 



Georgia 59 



Mississippi 64 



Arkansas 79 



Kentucky 78 



Indiana 88 



Iowa 92 



Nebraska 100 



Nevada . . no 



New Mexico. ... 97 



The orange crop is large and of good quality. An encourag- 

 ing feature' of the orange industry is the steady growth of the 

 export trade. English markets are said to take the early or 

 acid oranges at better prices than they bring in this country. 

 California oranges are being shipped to Europe, but the 

 export trade, so far as transportation is concerned, is in favor 

 of the Florida growers, and our eastern markets will probably 

 find, as a consequence, an increasing supply of California 

 fruit. 



The import orange trade is still large, however, as is shown 

 by the following figures of receipts, in boxes, from Palermo, 

 Sicily, from October, 1890, to September, 1891 : 



Oranges. 



At New York 278,433 . 



Boston • • 165.804 . 



Philadelphia 56,290 . 



New Orleans 35.567 . 



Baltimore 5,675 . 



Montreal 4,349 • 



Totals • • ' 546,118 . 



Corresponding period, 1889-90 ..464,508. 



Lemons. 



808,412 

 144,244 

 84,161 

 250,447 

 5,109 

 2,105 



1,254,478 

 1,529,892 



}g are as follows : 



1890. 



Oranges $339,737 



Lemons 718,916. 



•$231,633 

 •■327,477 



Oranges. 



The total imports of oranges and lemons into the United 

 States from all sources for the last three months of i8qo and 



These figures, taken in connection with the large crops of 



