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By-Products, Dried and canned apples are important by- 

 products of the apple industry. This is evident from Tables 

 24, 25, and 26. Table 24 lists the quantities of apples and 

 other fruits dried for purposes of comparison. Contrary to 

 the general impression, enormous quantities of apples are 



TABLE 24 



Production of Dried Fruits 1923-37 



U. S. Dept. of Agriculture 





1923 



1929 



1935 



1937 



Apples 



Figs 



Prunes 



Raisins 



Pears 



pounds 

 19,397,844 

 54,029,042 



61,616,496 

 245,786,104 

 380,068,441 



pounds 

 44,619,712 

 43,089,530 

 28,020,931 

 35,849,539 

 347,349,407 

 421,203,596 



pounds 

 71,257,536 

 49,176,457 

 44,716,293 

 50,695,693 

 473,600,870 

 414,129,227 

 14,098,736 

 2,885,443 



pounds 

 52,500,000 

 44,000,000 

 57,400,000 

 27,000,000 

 512,000,000 

 580,000,000 

 16,384,376 

 3,748,769 



Other fruits . . . 



30,903,088 



18,565,900 



Totals. , 



791,801,215 



938,698,615 



1,120,560,255 



1,093,033,145 



Increase in total production, 1923-37, 38.0 percent. 



Increase in production of apples, 1923-37, 170.6 percent. 



Decrease in production of apricots, 1923—37, 18.5 percent. 



Increase in production of figs, 1929-37, 104.8 percent. 



Decrease in production of peaches, 1923-37, 56.1 percent. 



Increase in production of prunes, 1923-37, 108.3 percent. 



Increase in production of raisins, 1923—37, 52.6 percent. 



Increase in production of pears, 1935-37, 16.2 percent. 



dried, more than in the case of other tree fruits with the excep- 

 tion of prunes, and the trend is strongly upward. Under 

 normal conditions there is a good foreign outlet for them. 



Table 25 indicates how the canning of apples and the 

 making of applesauce are increasing and the states most active 

 in this connection. The Shenandoah-Cumberland region is a 



