Show APPLE CROP IS S BELOW NORMAL New ew York and Washington Washing ton toll to Have Less Less- Lessened I ened Yield Uy By Iy NEA Sen ServIce Ice COLUMBUS 0 O July 9 That That ap- ap apple pla a day may be harder to buy this year than last Prospects for the country's co try's apple crop are arc 25 per par cent less favorable now than they were for the 1926 19 6 crop cropIn cropin In June of last year jear ear The crop prom prom- promises promises promises less than the average crop of the past ten years It Is reported by byC byC C C. n. n I Arnold rural economics exten- exten extension sion specialist at the Ohio State Stale uni- uni erly on the basis b of recently na- na wide lion wIde ton estimates Apples at this thi time last year jear were reported to promise 78 per cent of a I normal crop This July are for 57 per cent of normal ac according ac- ac according according cording to the United States stat department depart depart- department ment of o agriculture Average for the past pat 10 years jears Is 70 per cent of nor nor- normal mal mal Only Ony one leading apple state Mich Mich- Michigan MichIgan Michigan igan reports a crop likely liely to equal last years jears New York and Washington ton pro pro- producing producing producing more than a fourth of the nations nation's apple crop both report apple i crop conditions as less promising than last year jea or the 10 jear average Washington with a June 1 report last lat year jear of 82 percent per cent cent this year reports apple crop prospects as 64 per cent of normal norm at Washington's 10 year average on June 1 was 85 per cent normal norm at New York reporting 85 per cent centon centon centon on June 1 last lat year jear this June report report- cd ed 72 per cent of normal expected New Yorks York's year 10 average o Is 78 per percent pr percent cent of normal |