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Excerpt from Crop Production: December 10, 1943 The 1943 season was featured by exceptionally small crops of apples, peaches, cherries, apricots, and strawberries. Winter and spring injury by freezes an favorable weather during pollination were largely responsible for the smaller of tree fruits. A drastic reduction in the acreage of strawberries and light yields per acre resulted in the smallest strawberry crop since 1920, But par offsetting these small crops are the largest crop of grapes on record, large of plums, prunes and figs, and a record-high prospective tonnage of citrus f The estimated production of oranges for the season is the largest of the grapefruit outlook is for a crop second only to the record crop of 1942 lemon production-probably will be the third largest crop of record. 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.