Show NEW YORKS PEAR CROP maudson valley pears find a market all over the W world orld value of tho the cr crop op the hudson valley of new york has long been bean conceded to be the greatest pear prodoc producing I 1 n country in the world supplying almost entirely i not paly only new york E boston CIS t on a and nd Phila philadelphia delp ya but many european cit cities lies T r last year year the hudson vall valley e y pear crop was wa s unusually large selling for several milli million oil dollars early this spring the outlook for a fair production was very encouraging until the buds began to oper opec when vaen the ocel ocl ellana lsna or bud moth and the leaf began de destructive tive works work destroying fully half the crop eating into the heart of the bud few people have an idea of the lalor labor and expense entailed in handling the pear crop between new york andalft and albany immense numbers of people are arc now employed picking and shipping pears I 1 while the hudson valley pears are not so smooth and attractive as those of california they are more ore highly y appreciated precia ted and are of superior flavor generally the pears are sold to commission men before they are ripe canada last year ear took about one half of the states entire crop at sa barrel new york and boston this year get two thirds of the crop at three dollars per barrel As soon as the tha pears are picked they are barrel cd and shipped in new york being sod so by b the barrel without dumping in liver Liv cool ool the sales are arc conducted differently leing being sold entirely at auction n and bringing bring in g five do dollars ar per I 1 barrel 1 Dart letts do not stand transportation very iry well very few ot 0 I are hipped chipped abroad Liver liverpool poc 1 I is nr ached with the kieller or more laray 1 ady variety but b ut not equal in flavor to io the bartlett the pear industry in the I 1 hudson valley ralley is in its infancy notwithstanding that it produces a large of the worlds fart t for there are arc thousands of ceres of you oune 19 trees tree rot yet bearing and many thousand more are being planted plante dann annually baly at A the present of indrea sc in fruit frat growth and c culture 0 r country 1 that before many annn years vears the hudson valley talley will vill be t e a g r rn ic c orean orchard ird extending from one chu of the state to fo theother the other er an aid d capable I 1 of furni furnishing ashing a bg bountiful ull ticul supply of fruit for the entire world N Y herald |