Show THE APPLE CROP The Time Evening Post of New York says that the apple crop last year was estimated at barrels barrels bar bar- and was sold at prices es ranging from 2 to 3 a barrel and from 3 to 5 according to season This year ear the crop promises to be 50 per pcr cent bea heavier er than it was last Oregon and Washington promise to double their output while New York the greatest apple state in the east should equal the amount har har- vested lust year which was barrels The apple business is about the strongest item in inthe inthe inthe the way of fruit A merchant in New York W. W N. N White estimates that there are over apple trees in this country He ITe gives them by bj states and puts Utah at trees Washington Oregon California and Oklahoma arc are credited with over ocr trees each The Time same author makes more than pear trees in tho the United States |