Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1913 — Figs and Raisins. [ARTICLE]

Figs and Raisins.

Consul Horton at Smyrna notes that the Reform, a Smyrna newspaper, estimates the raisin crop for this year at about 700,000 quintals (87.164,000 pounds) and that of figs about 75,000 camel loads (36,082,500 pounds). But from what he has been able to learn ft seems that exporters and dealers mostly are trying to keep the crop reports at a low figure in order to be able to begin with high prices, and that if the weather continues favorable the raisin erpp will amount approximately to 99,616,000 pounds, against 56,034,000 pounds last year, and the fig crop to 100,000 camel loads as against 120,000 camel loads last year.