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App5.e Exports 
Exports of apples, including green and ripe, and 
dried fruit, have shown a remarkable growth since 1896* 
During that year the total value of the apple exports was 
sf3,045,586. By the year 1900 the value of exports had in¬ 
creased to nearly four million dollars, by 1905 to over 
six million, 1910 over seven million, and by 1915 to nearly 
1C.4 million dollars. Most of the increase in value of ex¬ 
ports was due to the increased exports of ripe fruit which 
in 1896 were valued at $1,880,013 and in 1915 at $7,686,094, 
The value of dried fruit exported increased nearly one mil¬ 
lion dollars from 1896 to 1901. Beginning with 1903 the 
value varied annually from $2,000,000 to $3,500,000, Only 
once previous to 1915 did the value of dried fruit exported 
exceed three million dollars. This was in the year 1911 
when they amounted to $3,851,295 or more than 40 per cent 
of the entire apple exports from the United States for 
that year. 
The advent of the World War marked a very sharp decline 
in our apple export trade. Considered more as a luxury dur¬ 
ing the war period they suffered greatly and by 1918 were 
valued at only $3,500,000. This was a drop of nearly seven 
% 
million dollars from the previous high mark reached in 1915, 
This condition was changed with the signing of the 
armistice. Early in 1919 Europe as well as the United 
