. Yearbook of agriculture . .WU. .Other 19,0691630O16,79915,96414,22713,,787I12J61 STATE \ ACRLS STATE ACRE5 , N. Y. . .. ,51656, Ky. .. M«M. Tenn. 29,73529, ^ Fig. 61. There has been very little planting of apple orchards in the West in recent vears the higher freight rates increasing the difficulties of competition with eastern-grown fruit. Less than 9 per cent of the apple trees not of bearing age were in theWest in 1920. Most of the acreage of young trees, it wi
. Yearbook of agriculture . .WU. .Other 19,0691630O16,79915,96414,22713,,787I12J61 STATE \ ACRLS STATE ACRE5 , N. Y. . .. ,51656, Ky. .. M«M. Tenn. 29,73529, ^ Fig. 61. There has been very little planting of apple orchards in the West in recent vears the higher freight rates increasing the difficulties of competition with eastern-grown fruit. Less than 9 per cent of the apple trees not of bearing age were in theWest in 1920. Most of the acreage of young trees, it will be noted on the map, is locatedalong the .shore of Lake Ontario in New York, in the lower Hudson Valley, in NewEngland, along the Appalachians from Pennsylvania to Georgia, in the upper OhioVallev. along the Lake Michigan shore of Michigan, and in the Sonoma \ alley ofCalifornia. Trees not of bearing age numbered 36 million in 1920 as compared withnearly 66 million In 1910. A Graphic Summarp of American Agriculture. 465. Fig. 62.—The West produced one-third of the apples gi-own in 1910 di spite the factthat it possessed only one-seventh of the acreage of bearing trees. Washington led allStates in production, with a total almost equal to that of New York and Virginiacombined. The three famous apple districts of —the Yakima Valley, theWenatchee Valley, and Spokane Countv—stand mit clearly on the map; the HoodRiver and Willainette Valleys of Oregon, the Boiw, Idaho, district, the Sonoma Valleyin California, and the Grand .Tunction-Delta-Montrose district of Colorado. In theEast, the New England area, the two noted New York districts, the Appalachian, thewestern Michigan, the Ozark, and the northwestern Missouri districts are the mostimportant. p_ APPLES SOLD OR TO BE SOLD, ^COMMERCIAL CROP, 1919 each dot represents r\ /i^^a^ \ -^ ^^--^^ %? \/n l-:n V\/~~f * ?? •T^} i ^-J 7 rmfi APPUS SOLD. EIC ^^v^ / ??•. J i——-^ STATE BUSHELS APPLES SOLD OR TO
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