Excerpt from The Australian and South African Canned Deciduous Fruit Industries In 1958 the United Kingdom imported nearly 7 million standard cases of canned peaches, pears, and apricots-about three -fifths of the world trade in these items. Of this total, Australia furnished 43 percent, South Africa 34 percent, and the United States about 8 percent. 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.