Nebraska advertiser., 1878-02-21

being grand total of-...........-..Sl5orIS rISS OVU
The number of acres under cultiva-
tion, in orchards, small fruits and
vines, is given at 100000.
California has, in addition to her
figs, oranges, lemons, olives, apples,
pears, peaches aad plums, sixty thou
sand acres in vineyards. forty-three
millions of vines, yielding annually
besides grapes and raisius, ten millions
gallons of wine.
The value of the fruit crop in the
state of Michigan is given officially al
four millions of dollars annually.
Illinois has three hundred and
twenty thousand acres in orchards.
From one railroad station. in that
State, Golden, there was shipped
twenty-six car loads of fruit in one
day.
The state of New York shipped a
half million dollars worth of fruit in a
siugle season, in addition to her home
consumption.
Ohio has $50, 900 acres in apple trees
yielding an annualaverage of 1900
800 bushels. The annual average Of the
pear yield is I00, 200 bushels. Ten
thousand acres are in grapes, produc-
ing an annual average of 5000, 900
pounds. and 700, 900 gallons of wine.
The little valley of Annapolis, Nova
Scotia. our domain true, yet
our neighbor-a tract of land eighty
five by five miles, averages two hun
dred thousand dollars annually in ap-
pies alone.
The annual sales of dried fruit in
Chicago markets, as shown by the ma
tional board of trade, is three millions
OF dollars; green fruits. five millions ;
q total of eight millions,
From the best information at my
command, / feel safe in estimating
the apple crop of Nebraska for 1877,
over and above that consumed by
those growing, at so 900 bushels.
These statistics, scattering over va
rlous portions of the country, will
serve to form something of an idea OF
the American fruit crop.
One might naturally enquire /:
"Wbat becomes of this enormous
prOduct?" "Are we not over-crOp-
ping ourselves ?'' lis not, or will not
fruit become a drug in the market ?"
The answer is: We are, be it to our
credit said, fruit-eating people. AS
the rule. consuming less "hog and
hominy." and eating more fruit. Be-
sides, a foreign demand is made for
American fruits. For reasons not es-
sential here To present. the old world
wants our fruits as well as our beef
corn and pork.
The american AgricuLturist. afteI
an extended article upon the import
ance of our beef export trade, make:
the following allusion to another spe
cies of export trade, which, at it:
present rate of increase, bids fair a
no distant day. to play an importanI
part in keeping the present trade bal
ance in our favor. From the first o
November till'the last of July annu
ally, there is brisk trade in the ship
ment of barrels of apples. not only t.
Europe, but away to Australia. Fo
ten months, ending July first, last
1000 barrels a month had been ship
ped and sold in foreign markets, a
from So to $40 per barrel. according Il
quality. In addition to the shipment
OF green apples, millions of pound
are dried and sent in barrels to Eu
rope. or in kegs to Australia. II
kegs, because their transportation, al
ter reaching those distant parts. J
upon mules backs. and therefore cal
DE more easily handled. Peaches ar
not shipped in quantities ,.ss they ar