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Excerpt from The Fruit Situation: June 1951 Shipments of 1951 - crop apricots from California got under way in late May and became heavy in earlyjune° Season-opening prices for these apricots on the New York City auction were slightly higher than comparable prices in 19500 Because of the small crop and stronger demand than in 1950, prices for the entire 1951 crop are expected to average higher than the average of $95ou0 per ton for the 1950 crop. Canners' stocks on June 1, 1951, were about 75 percent smaller than on that date in 1950. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.