Evening star., 1924-06-03
U. S. 1924 FRUIT CROP
HELD BIGGEST EVER
500, ,000,0 900 Worth Exported in
Year, Which Ends With June,
Is Estimate. "a
APPLE AT HEAD OF LIST
Statistics Show Largely Increased
Trade in Five Years.

Announcement that our 1924 fruit
crop will probably be the biggest
ever suggests a prospective continu.
alton OF the large contributions
which the United States is now max
ing to the fruit supply of other parts
of the world. The value of our own
fruit exports in the past five years,
says the Trade Record of the National
City Bank of New York, has asgre-
gated more than s4oo. 900, 600, and in
the fiscal year 1924, which ends with
the month of June. will approximate
$10o, 900, 600.
The adoption of modern processes
for the preservation of fruits in their
| passage from the farm to the con
sumer, says the Trade Record. the
refrigerated car. the cold storage
warehouse and the refrigerated ship
mas enormously increased the quality
and marketing value of the fruit crop
of this, the biggest fruit producing
country of the world.
Fruit Becomes n Speciality.
Fruit growing has been transformed
from an incidental feature of farm
production to a speciality, and fruit
farming and distribution are now
conducted with the same careful and
scientific methods which characterize
that Of other staple crops AS q re-
suit our exports of fruits have grown
from $l1, 100000 value in 1900 to $22,-
100000 in 1910, $82,500,000 in 1929
ana seem likely to aggregate S19e,-
100000 in the fiscal year 1924 I'M
profement in the art of canning has
brought the export value of canned
fruits from $4,000, 900 in 1913 to S22,-
000, 0e00 in 1921
Apples I'm N.tu,,, STAT.
Apples in the natural state alone
aggregated S2l, 600. 900 in the export
records of the nine months ending
with haSSh, 1924, against only $4,000
eoV In the same months OF the pre-
ceuing year; oranges showed an in
| crease OF 80 per cent in the quantity
exported in the current fiscal wear as
compared with the same period of
last year, while the exports Of berries
the most difficult of all fruits for long
Instance Shipment, are so per cent
greater in the current year than those
or the Immediately preceding wear
Ihese new conditions under which
fruits are grown and distributed to
the consumers in all parts of the
world explain in large part at least
tne fact that our exports since the
beginning of 1900 aggregated ss45.-
1000. while those of the like period
preceding 1900 were less than $780,
100000.
Glasses Dozen I'm Number.
The classes of fruit enumerated in
our export record are a dozen in num-
Der. the largest single group being
apples, which form about 33 per cent
OF the value of the fruits exported.
canned fruits 20 per cent, oranges and
other cltrous fruits about 10 per cent
and raisins and prunes about 10 per
cent each of the total for the latest
available year.
The sums which our own peepIe,
the nnal consumers. pay for fruit pro-
duced in the United States is much
more difficult to estimate. The CEN
sus OF is2o put the value of the fruit
crop of 1919 al s102 00O, 600, and esti-
mates OF the Department of AgricuI-
ture are put at s692. 900. 900 for 1922
and s6S1 100000 in 1928. these figures
being those of the value of the prod
uct at the place of production and .ex-
elusive or movements TO markets ar
profits OF those through whose hands
they pass IN reaching the final con-
sumner.