The Apple - Various

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lbs.

      No. 3.

Water 85.0 lbs.
Sugar 7.6 "
Acid 1.0 "
Albuminous substances .22 "
Insoluble matter 1.83 "
Pectous Substances 3.88 "
Ash .47 "
100 lbs.

      WEIGHT OF APPLES.

      Thirty-three hundred three-bushel barrels were weighed. The average net weight, barrel not included, was: Ben Davis, 134 pounds, or 442/3 pounds per bushel; Missouri Pippin, 1362/3 pounds, or 455/9 pounds per bushel; Winesap, 1443/4 pounds, or 481/4 pounds per bushel. Apples vary in weight in different seasons. Jonathans weighed in quantity three seasons give 134, 136 and 140 pounds per barrel, averaging 455/9 pounds per barrel. These weights are all net; they do not include the weight of the barrel.

      TIME OF BLOOMING IN LEAVENWORTH COUNTY.

      Observations taken through a period of eight years—1890 to 1897—show the Jonathan, Missouri Pippin, Winesap and Ben Davis in full bloom on April 25, 29, 30, 20, 22, 20, 22, 26.

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      Quantity of apples grown in 1889 in states having more than Kansas, taken from the United States census of 1890:

1. Ohio 13,789,278 bus.
2. Michigan 13,154,626 "
3. Kentucky 10,679,389 "
4. Illinois 9,600,785 "
5. Indiana 8,784,038 "
6. Missouri 8,698,170 "
7. New York 8,493,846 "
8. Virginia 8,391,425 "
9. North Carolina 7,591,541 "
10. Pennsylvania 7,552,710 "
11. Tennessee 7,283,945 "
12. Iowa 5,040,352 "
13. West Virginia 4,439,978 "
14. Kansas 3,713,019 "

      

      AMERICAN APPLES ABROAD.

      Furnished by Walter Wellhouse, through courtesy of Simons, Shuttleworth & Co., Liverpool.

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Ports of Export.
Date. Figures given represent barrels.
New York. Boston. Montreal. Portland. Baltimore. Philadelphia. Halifax. St. Johns.
1897.
Aug. 7 201
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