Excerpt from A Picture of the Fruit and Vegetable Industry Table II and Table VI. These tables give the rank of crops as based on value. Table I is important mainly because it shows the comparative transportation problem. For example, watermelons stand second to Irish potatoes in bulk, but in value, watermelons stand in loth place. This emphasizes the importance of a proper adjustment of freight rates taking into account not only bulk and weight, pp; value. This was brought home to farmers by the post-war rate changes. 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.