Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1912-11-08 | Page 3 | American Fruit Consumpton

American Fruit Consumpton. Statistice for 1909 show that the apple crop of the United States was worth $83, 000,00, peaches $28,000,000, grapes $22,000,000, and strawberries $170,000, oranges reaching the same large figures. The people of the United Uni-ted States consumed $10,000,000 of plums and prunes, $7,000,000 of pears and cherries and $5,000,000 of the rasp-berrr. rasp-berrr. One of the curious features of this production of fruit has been the lessening less-ening of the apple crop, which ln tho past decade, with a growing population, popula-tion, has decreased from 175,000,000 to 150,000,000 barrels. On the other hand, the production of tropical fruits ln continental United States has about trebled in the same time, and ten times as many pineapples are grown now as were produced ten years ago.