Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-02-13 | Page 10 | The Increasing Fruit Trade

THE INCREASING FRUIT TRADE. New York papers report South African peaches on sale in that city. And the men of Seattle tret even by 6ayinp that they have sent thousands of "ass of "Washington apples to Australia, that they have c:one through with perfect success, and are berncr, ravenously raven-ously eaten by the Australians now. just as tlinr winter is coming on. The Sun notes that in Massachusetts. New York, end other States, the farmers are supplying cauliflower, cauli-flower, strawberries and like fruits and vetretibb s. which they have raised in hothouses. The tendency is toward shipping the fruits and vegetables from one country to another, because ocean freights are cheaper. Between New Orleans. Nicaragua, and Honduras there are regular )in:s of fruit ships, so there are between the West Indies and our Eastern States. A ereat deal of fruit is brought from southern Europe to New York every year. Mas-t.ini Mas-t.ini orantres can be obtained at any time in the winter win-ter in New York and as far west as St. Louis, a-.d the ships that bring these goods, carry back flour and salt pork and salt fish and canned goods, especially espe-cially canned meats, with the result that the world is living better than it did forty years afro, and the luxuries of life are brought within the reach of an ordinary wage-earner.