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Show Miscellany 1 Olive Crop in Andalusia. j : Seville is the center of the olive trade in Andalusia, and during 1916 the exportation ex-portation to the United States'amounted to 4,457,168 gallons, valued at $2,173,036. The olive crops of the district have alternating good and had years. The year 1914 had a poor crop of olives, while the 1013 crop was exceptionally good. As the 1915 crop was shipped in 1916, last year's exports constituted a record for the district. In 1915 the exportation was onlv 2,S59,664 gallons, valued at $1,227,336. The shipments during the present year, being crops of 1916, will be below those of last year. The crop of olives in Spain is gathered gath-ered in September and October, and shipping takes place from December, when the new olives are shipped for the first time, until the following October, Oc-tober, when the season is about closed. Preliminary crop estimates are usually available in May and June, but these are not official. More complete estimates esti-mates of the crop can be secured in October, Oc-tober, as the growth of the olive depends de-pends largely on the rains of September and October. There are two . distinct classes of olivesthose prepared for eating and those for oil. Sometimes an excellent crop of eating olives is obtained when the oil olive crop is poor, and vice versa, but. as a general rule they run together. The eating olives are the ones that enter into the export trade to the United States and other countries. coun-tries. United States Commerce Deports. |