. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. A cabinet evaporator. Annual average Pounds Value Price 1864-1870 1871-1880 1881-1890 1891-1900 1901-1904 1,067,920 4,632,460 13,305,098 19,-368,301 32,980,363 $114,681 289,986 773,.508 1,088,104 1,968,808 $0,107 .063 .058 .056 .059 The center of the apple-evaporating industry is Wayne county. New York. This county undoubt- edly produces more evaporated apples than any state ou
. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. A cabinet evaporator. Annual average Pounds Value Price 1864-1870 1871-1880 1881-1890 1891-1900 1901-1904 1,067,920 4,632,460 13,305,098 19,-368,301 32,980,363 $114,681 289,986 773,.508 1,088,104 1,968,808 $0,107 .063 .058 .056 .059 The center of the apple-evaporating industry is Wayne county. New York. This county undoubt- edly produces more evaporated apples than any state outside of New York, except perhaps Cali- fornia. In 1902, this county evaporated over 3,000,000 bushels of apples, producing about 20,000,000 pounds of dried stock. The average for the past five vears (1900-05) has been about ,000 pounds. Over 70 per cent of the total crop is evaporated. This evaporation is nearly all done by the farmers who grow the fruit or by their neighbors. The evaporators are almost as characteristic of the farms as are the barns in a dairy region. Evaporating is also done in the villages. The methods described in this article are founded on New York experience. (See page 165.) Sun drying. Until about 1870, sun drying, or drying over the kitchen stove, were the only methods used. Prob- ably, the beginning of the evaporating industry was with the invention of the Lippy fruit-drier, in 1865. It was about fifteen years later before the evaporator largely replaced the sun-drying method. Many farmers still dry fruit in the sun, but in the East large quantities are not often so dried by one person. The sun-drying is ordinarily done on racks, made of lath placed about one-fourth inch apart and covered with cloth or paper, or made of thin. Fig. 256. Fruit evaporator adapted to kitchen stove. lumber. Slices of apples are sometimes strung on strings and hung in the sun to dry. Evaporation gives a much better looking product, that is more palatable and more dig
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