Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1891 — Prunes and Prune-Eaters. [ARTICLE]

Prunes and Prune-Eaters.

It is estimated that the United States consumes annually about 85,000,000 pounds of prunes. The greater part of these is imported. The domestic supply is produted wholly on the Pacific coast, the output in 1890 being about 16,000,000 pounds. Those California prunes are so much better than foreign pruues that they sell readily in New York at considerab'y higher prices. Nearly all imported prunes, except those coming from France, are of a common qua ity and are bought by all housewives of modest means. Y’et WbKinley doubled the duty on the imported prunes of the poor in order to guarantee h'gher profits still to California prune growers, who sell their product to the rich.