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Show FRUIT ROTTING ON THE GROUND Michigan Growers Suffer Heavy Loss for Lack of Market Facilities. Chicago. A half ' million dollars' worth of the greatest fruit crop Berrien Ber-rien county, Mich., has grown in five years lies rotting on the ground, four hours from Chicago by boat or rail. This estimate was made by expert growers to an Investigator for the Chicago Daily News, which published the story. Men interviewed declared the crop of peaches, pears, apples, plums and cantaloupes to be worth !fS,(XH),000 to $10,000,000. Thousands of bushels of fine peaches are being fed to the hogs or dumped on the ground to rot. |