Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1884 — A New Feature In Fruit Preserving. [ARTICLE]

A New Feature In Fruit Preserving.

California fruit growers have discovered that apricots bleached with sulphur fumes and then dried in the sun are superior to 4-hose that are dried in any other manner or that are canned. They regard this fact of very great importance to the whole State. It enables every fruit culturist, however limited his means, and however small the product of his orchards, to dry his own fruit for market, and make him independent of the canning factories. It is also stated that fruit can be prepared in this manner more cheaply than in any other, that its weight is better preserved, and that it is of superior flavor. Large dealers in dried fruit say that the market for such products of California orchards will always be greater than the supply can possibly be. The United States alone will readily take all the fruit of the kind and quality now being produced by the sundrying process that California can ever raise. Many thousands of apricot trees have been planted within a recent date in orchard form in Southern California. Sun-dried apricots are being sold to California dealers at double the price paid for the best raisins.