11. During this period, settlers primarily raised cattle and farmed grain and fruit crops . 12. Despite proper application of the spray it killed the grower's fruit crop . 13. Fruit crops were also a factor including peaches, plums, pears, and grapes.14. His first major job was to help clean up the weed problem in fruit crops . 15. He was author of 36 books on culture and post-harvest of fruit crops . 16. They specialize in the more obscure fruit crops that one could grow in a home orchard. 17. It is the first fruit crop to be sequenced, and only the fourth flowering plant. 18. California produces the largest percentage of the US and the world's dried fruit crop . 19. Mites form scale-like galls on twigs, retarding growth and reducing the fruit crop . 20. The hurricane destroyed about 15 sq . mi ( 39 km 2 ) of fruit crop .