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Show DRIED FRUITS NUTRITIOUS. Washington, D. C , Feb. 4. Housewives House-wives are overlooking a very nutritious nutri-tious and economical diet in dried fruits, according to the department of agriculture. Dried fruits. It says, are especially useful when the supply of fresh fruits 16 limited. The amount of dried fruit produced In this country increased 575 per cent between 1899 and 1909. California produces more than four fifths of the yearly output. It is estimated that each person consumes on an average five or six pounds ot dried fruit a year. The value of the product rose from 54,000,000 to over 121,000,000 In ten years. The average wholesale price, however, how-ever, has not advanced with the increased in-creased demand on the contrary, it has dropped from 5 1-2 to about 4 1-2 cents per pound. |