. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. October, 1921 BETTER FRUIT Page 27 â III )^ I Our Inquiry Depart- I i ment I E ^ ?iiiiiiilliiiiiiiiiiiiiililiiiitiiiiiiitriirilllillliiilliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilitiiriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiti)~ "WTiLL you kindly give me the statistics avail- " able in regard to the apple crop from the years 1908 to 1918. Also the meaning of the national apple crop and the Commercial Crop.âJ. C. B., Washington. We have no statistics available to give you a comparative report on
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. October, 1921 BETTER FRUIT Page 27 â III )^ I Our Inquiry Depart- I i ment I E ^ ?iiiiiiilliiiiiiiiiiiiiililiiiitiiiiiiitriirilllillliiilliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilitiiriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiti)~ "WTiLL you kindly give me the statistics avail- " able in regard to the apple crop from the years 1908 to 1918. Also the meaning of the national apple crop and the Commercial Crop.âJ. C. B., Washington. We have no statistics available to give you a comparative report on apples from the years 1908 to 1918. The total apple crop for the country in 1918 was 24,743,000 barrels. Replying to your inquiry as to the meaning of the "national apple crop" and the "commercial crop" of the country, the difference is this: The national crop means the entire crop produced in the United States, while the commercial crop applies to that part of the crop which is marketed or sold on the commercial market. As you are probably aware, there is an immense quantity of apples that is never sold. This portion goes into home consumption and is used for other purposes, or is allowed to go to waste. The fact that one of these crops is frequently described in barrels and the other in bushels have no particular significance. Apparently, the writer seems to use whatever term comes uppermost in his mind in describing quantities. AAA yV/ILL you kindly inform me if there is any comprehensive list that is published of all known varieties of fruit, chiefly apples and pears with a correct description of them. I fancy there is such work published with a glossary of this description.âG. M. G., Kclowna, B. C. There is no book published giving a full list of the varieties of fruit now under cultivation in the United States. The United States Departmeint of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry, Bul- letin number 55 on the Nomenclature of the Apple is the most co
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