Successful farming : a ready reference on all phases of agriculture for farmers of the United States and Canada . lifornia, Los Angeles, 1914. CITRUS FRUITS 487 According to the thirteenth United States census, there were in theUnited States in 1910, 11,486,768 bearing citrus trees and 5,400,402 of non-bearing age. The production in 1909 reached a grand total of 23,502,128boxes valued at $22,711,448. This production was divided as follows: Cali-fornia, 17,318,497 boxes; Florida, 5,974,135 boxes; Louisiana, 153,319boxes; Arizona, 32,247 boxes; Texas, 10,694 boxes; Mississippi, 3779boxes; Alabam
Successful farming : a ready reference on all phases of agriculture for farmers of the United States and Canada . lifornia, Los Angeles, 1914. CITRUS FRUITS 487 According to the thirteenth United States census, there were in theUnited States in 1910, 11,486,768 bearing citrus trees and 5,400,402 of non-bearing age. The production in 1909 reached a grand total of 23,502,128boxes valued at $22,711,448. This production was divided as follows: Cali-fornia, 17,318,497 boxes; Florida, 5,974,135 boxes; Louisiana, 153,319boxes; Arizona, 32,247 boxes; Texas, 10,694 boxes; Mississippi, 3779boxes; Alabama, 1201 boxes. A few boxes are also produced in Georgiaand the Carolinas. The increase in yield and acreage since 1909 has beenvery great in California and Florida, so that the above data are verymuch below the present production. Propagation of Citrus Varieties.—In the early days of the citrusindustry, many seedling trees were grown in commercial groves. Now allgroves are planted with stock budded with varieties of known is important that the proper stocks be used. Orange and lemon varieties. Good Orange Seedlings. are most extensively budded on sour orange stock, largely because of theresistance of this stock to foot-rot or gum disease. Wherever there isdanger from this malady, the sour orange stock should surely be orange stock is also used widely, both in Florida and on sweet stock probably in general grow rather more rapidly andrather larger than on sour stock, but the susceptibility of sweet stock tothe gum diseases renders its use more limited. In dry, well-drained soilsin Florida and in the dry interior regions of California it is a very satisfac-tory stock. Pomelo and Florida rough lemon stocks have some advocates,but have not been generally used. The Trifoliate orange is probably thebest stock for the Satsuma and some oranges grown in the Gulf states,but has not given satisfaction in general. It has a very marked dwarfingeff
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