FRUIT SUPPLIES

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 86, 9 October 1915, Page 3

FRUIT SUPPLIES

AMERICAN APPLES AND NEW ZEALAND PROSPECTS. Mr. T. W. Kirk, Director of the Orchards, Gardens, and Apiaries Division of the Department of Agriculture, has received from his agents at Panama Exposition advice with respect to the apple crop of the United States. It shows that on Ist September the forecast for the State of Washington was 7,300,000 bushels, and the United States 214,000,000 bushels. The final in 1914 was 8,300,000 bushels and 253,200,000 bushels respectively. It was reported on Bth September that the State of Washington had assured bumper crops this year, with half-a-dozen new production records. " Basing predictions on a canvass • made Ist September, by its thousands of agents ' throughout the United States, the Department of Agriculture has issued forecasts showing that prospects of practically nil the principal farm products, except potatoes and rice, improved during August. The reports of the officers of the New Zealand Department of Agriculture show that apple prospects are excellent in Wellington, Hastings, YVanganui. Palmerston North, and Blenheim centres, the blossom being abundant. Other fruits generally promise well. Palmerston Noith and Wanganui have a good crop of cherry blossom. In other places plums are blooming freely. Poars appear to be well ssi,