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Fruit Evaporation in America. 
the Shetlands." This proves conclusively that his acquaintance 
with Shetland is very limited indeed ; it may safely be asserted that 
one-third of the entire surface of the Islands is covered with it. 
The foregoing is written in no controversial spirit, but merely 
with the intention of preventing the spread of erroneous impressions 
respecting a breed of ponies which only require to be known to 
ensure for them the high reputation they deserve. 
R. Brydon. 
FRUIT EVAPORATION IN AMERICA. 
I am enabled, through the kindness of Mr. Michael Doyle, of 
Rochester, N.Y., U.S.A., to add some figures to those which appeared 
in a short article upon " Fruit-Evaporation in America," contributed 
to the Royal Agricultural Society's Journal by myself in 1888. 
(Vol. XXIV. 2nd Series, Part IT.) 
The western portion of New York State was there described as 
the home, par excellence, of the fruit-drying industry ; a district, 
lying within a radius of forty miles around the city of Rochester, 
N. Y., was designated as its centre ; and some particulars of the 
methods and cost of the evaporating process were given. But I 
was not then able to state definitely what quantity and value of 
evaporated fruit was produced annually in the area in question. 
I now learn that during the year 1888 there was dried as 
follows : — 
Kind of fruit 
Weight iu lbs. 
Value in sterling 
Whole, or ringed apples . 
25,000,000 
£ 
225,000 
Chopped apples .... 
8,000,000 
30,000 
Cores and parings . . . 
4,000,000 
12,000 
Black raspberries . . . 
750,000 
30,000 
Totals . . . 
37,750,000 
297,000 ' 
Two hundred and fifty millions of pounds (111,000 tons) of green 
apples, and two hundred and fifty thousand quarts of fresh rasp- 
berries were operated upon ; nineteen thousand tons of coal were 
burnt in fifteen hundred drying-houses, of various capacities, and 
forty-five thousand hands were employed, during four months of the 
year, in bringing about the above result. 
What the olive is to Spain, the orange and lemon to Italy, the 
vine to France, and the fig to Syria, such is the apple to America. 
That portion of the United States lying between the thirty-eighth 
ami fortieth parallels of latitude is the natural home of this valuabW 
fruit. Nowhere else in the world, probably, does it attain to such 
perfection j nowhere else is its cultivation so well understood, or 
