. Yearbook of agriculture . Ark . Or., . ,769,1516,828,6235,704,8675,650,,500 Mich . .. ,3723,540,3343,265,,021,4462, jf .. Fig. 63.—The commercial crop of apples in 1919—that is, the quantity sold or tobe sold ?—was nearly 100 million bushels, according to the census, constituting three-fourths of the total crop. The West produced over two-fifths of this commercial crop,Washington alone reporting over one-tifth of the total quantity in the United per cent of tle commercial crop
. Yearbook of agriculture . Ark . Or., . ,769,1516,828,6235,704,8675,650,,500 Mich . .. ,3723,540,3343,265,,021,4462, jf .. Fig. 63.—The commercial crop of apples in 1919—that is, the quantity sold or tobe sold ?—was nearly 100 million bushels, according to the census, constituting three-fourths of the total crop. The West produced over two-fifths of this commercial crop,Washington alone reporting over one-tifth of the total quantity in the United per cent of tle commercial crop was produced in the 15 apple districts alreadyreferred to. If will be noted that the production of the commercial crop of apples ismore concentrated than the total production, and the total production in turn, moreconcentrated than the acreage. Diseases and pests diminish the production of theunsprayed home orchards several years before they kill the trees. 466 Year-book of the Department of AgiieiilPare^ Fie. 64.—Three major centers of peach acreage are shown on the map—-the earlypeach district in central Georgia, the late peach district along Lake Ontario in NewYork, and the canning and dried peach districts in California. An important peachdistrict is rapidly devi^loping in Moore County, N. C. Minor centers may be noted insouthern New Jersey, in western Mai-j-land and adjacent counties of West Virginia, alongthe Michigan shore of Lake Michigan, in western Arkansas, and in northeastern , dry winters prevent peaches being grown to the northwest of a line drawn fromChicago to Omaha, thence to Aniarillo. Tex. The influence of the Great I^kes intempering winter temperatures on their leeward shores and retarding growth in springtill danger of frost is past is evident on th/? map.
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