11.   Fruit growers are gathering in a bumper crop of apples.

12.   Cider sales are up seven percent this year... and the makers say that despite a bumper crop, they need all the fruit they can get.

13.   A CHESHIRE vineyard is expecting a bumper crop as the grape picking season gets under way.

14.   Also weighing on prices are expectations of a bumper crop in Brazil next year.

15.   Although I failed to keep a winter spraying schedule, our apple and pear trees insisted on producing a bumper crop.

16.   And though his mere presence should scare anyone planning a crime in the state, Connecticut has a bumper crop of homicides.

17.   And when models lost their personalities and Hollywood created this bumper crop of ingenues, the models lost the covers.

18.   And while Verbeek knows that he won the free-agent lottery, the Stars are hoping they, too, have reaped a bumper crop.

19.   Argentina and Australia both had bumper crops this year.

20.   Argentina and Australia, which both posted bumper crops this year, have been able to consistently undersell the U.S. on the world market.