Author Description

Excerpt from The Fruit Situation: February 1941 The amount of pears consumed in domestic markets in January, excluding those distributed by the Surplus marketing Administration, exceeded by more than bushels the amount consumed domestically in January 1940. In spite of these heavier domestic sales of fresh pears, January prices of lead ing varieties were from.3 to 74 cents higher than in the comparable period of 1940. 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.