Show i I Is said the apple crop this year through all the north ant In Canada clear to Nova Scotia IB the largest I I ever seen President Richardson told II I the shippers at their convention last I I month that apples can no longer be I Ii considered luxury but a necessity It equal with potatoes or any other food 11 i staple The crop Is very great in New If England New York and Pennsylvania a t moderate to full In the Central Western I West-ern and Southwestern states and heavy In the far West the Pacific slope Canada n I Can-ada and Nova Scotia The yearly yield I i fluctuates between 25000000 and 76 II 000000 barrels I was perhaps 70000 II 000 In 1SOO which was the record year In this country J was not more than 1 30000000 last year Tho crop this yeav I Is expected to be between eighty and i one hundred million barrels The quality qual-ity Is said to be superb tharjlts to the added care In pruning cultivating and cpraylng the orchards nnd In barrel i lug the fruit together also with I Iul toselher wit the Ii i Improved appliances for storing refrigerating refrig-erating and shipping Europe is ready i i to receive all the surplus at any rca yonable price In 1SOC 3000000 barrels t wore shipped abroad while there were a little less tjian 300000 last year Orcat Britain Is tho largest Individual consumer but Hamburg took 72000 barrels last year |