Year’s Pickles in the United States.
If all the pickles manufactured in the United States were equally divided among the inhabitants, every man, woman, and child would receive about twenty-four, according to the statement of Frank A. Brown, secretary and treasurer of the National Pickle Packers’ Association, which held a business meeting at the Palmer House, Chicago.
“There are three million bushels of pickles raised in this country every year,” he said, “and as there are about eight hundred pickles to a bushel, every person in the United States would get about twenty-four.
“People often ask: ‘What good are pickles?’ They are one of the most beneficial foods in the world, because there is just enough acid in them to properly care for the teeth, and indirectly this improves the health of the whole body.”