- 4 '- 
The loss to Yugoslavia of many of its former export markets is 
not necessarily permanent. There has been developed in many countries, 
over many years, a real consumer demand for its prunes. With a return 
of a more normal price re lat ion snip between Yugoslav and American prunes, 
the small but reasonably priced Yugoslav fruit, if of good quality, will 
readily regain its place. For the immediate future, it is probable that 
production will continue to be lower than in the years prior to and 
immediately following the war. The prunes grovn may be expected to 
remain largely of the small native type with some improvement in Quality 
as more modern driers are installed. It is idle to assume that efforts 
to introduce larger fruit will not have some results, but a new generation 
of horticulturally trained peasants will have to appear before the results 
in this respect wj 11 be pronounced. 
Place of Yugoslavia in '.Vorld Prune Production 
The following, table, giving an estimate of the world's commercial 
production of dried prunes, shows that Yugoslavia ranks next to the United 
States as the most important producer. Since practically all of the dried 
prunes produced in Yugoslavia are exported, the exports have been taken as 
a measure of the commercial crop. The bulk of these exports fo o to Germany, 
Czechoslovakia, Italy, Austria and Hungary. They come in competition with 
prunes from the United States, particularly in Germany, the most important 
export market for both Yugoslav and American prunes. 
DRIED PRUNES: Extimated world's production, 1922 to 1929 
f* mm >-. 
orop 
of 
'Californ ia 
'product ion 
: Pacific 
: northwest 
■production 
: Yugoslav 
: exports 
: Sept -Aug 
France 
'production 
: South 
: Africa 
:product i on 
:Est imated 
: world's 
:producti on 
Short tons 
Short tons 
Short tons 
Short tens 
.Short tons 
: Short tons 
1922 
110,000 
40,750 
56.000 
2,357 
656 
209,765 
192.3 
150,000 
50,000 
63,000 
29,517 
1,467 
253,784 
1924 
159,000 
19,358 
: 5,000 
9,310 
1,232 
173,900 
1925 
146,000 
12,958 
48,000 
4,609 
677 
212,244 
1926 
150 , 000 
40,500 
52,000 
6,696 
1,051 
250,247 
1927 
225,000 
19 , 500 
34,000 . 
20 , 556 
a/ 296 
299,352 
1928 
220,500 : 
2,750 
20,500 : 
2,2-54 
*/ 
c/245,804 
1929 . 
a/ 108, 000 
a/ 32,500 ■ 
3.1 12,000 . 
a/ 5,000 ' 
*/ ' 
c/ 157,500 
§./ Subject to revision, b/ Not available. c/ Exclusive of South Africa. 
Fea ture s of Yug oslavia 
The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was established ?t the close of the 'or Id 
- r. It was built up by uniting to the former Kingdom of Serbia as a 
nuclues, the principality of riontenegro, several former provinces and sub- 
ject States of the old Austro -Hungarian Empire, and certain parts of western 
Bulgaria. It is bounded on the north by Austria and Hungary, on the east 
