Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Fact and Picture Story of the Prune and Apricot Industry of California and Its Relation to the Quality-Brand Sunsweet F z'rst - A State-wide, co-operative organiza tion embracingmore than growers en gaged in the prune and apricot industry of California; and representing'75 per cent of the acreage used in the production of these dried fruits. 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.