. Yearbook of agriculture . Fig. 65.^—California produced nearly one-third ef the Nations crop of peaches in1919. Fresno County alone producing one-tenth. Georgia ranked second, with Texas aclose third. The New York crop was greatly reduced by a late fre<-ze, but the NewJersey crop was large. It is worth noting that the production of peaches this yeardid not extend nearly as far to the north and west as the acreage. The Yakima Valleyin Washiniiton. the peach belt east of Great Salt Lake in Utah, and the Grand Junction-Delta district in Colorado show a production disproportionate to the acre
. Yearbook of agriculture . Fig. 65.^—California produced nearly one-third ef the Nations crop of peaches in1919. Fresno County alone producing one-tenth. Georgia ranked second, with Texas aclose third. The New York crop was greatly reduced by a late fre<-ze, but the NewJersey crop was large. It is worth noting that the production of peaches this yeardid not extend nearly as far to the north and west as the acreage. The Yakima Valleyin Washiniiton. the peach belt east of Great Salt Lake in Utah, and the Grand Junction-Delta district in Colorado show a production disproportionate to the acreage. Theseason of lyiO was generally favoral)le. Although the number of bearing peach trees in theUnited States dropped from 94 million in 1910 to 65 million in 1920, the productionwas 40 per cent greater in 1919 than in 1909. A Graphic Summary of American Agriculture. 467. PLUM AND PRUNE TREES APPROXIMATI ACREAGE, 1919 STATE ACRES STATE ACRES C^f. Orej. 39,744 Idaho. Wiuh. Ohio. Pa ... Mich. N. Iowa. ; . 3,322 p-iG. 66.—Nearly half of the Nations acroage of plum and prune trees is in Cali-fornia, and nearly a third is in the fivo counties of Santa Clara, Sonoma, Placer, Napa,and Solano. One-twelftb more is in Marion, Polk, and Yamhill counties, Oreg. Theseeight counties produced 51 per cent of the total crop in 1010, and 57 per cent of thecommercial crop. A smaller center may be noted in Clarke County, Wash., and ascattered acreage in the upper Willamette and Umpqua Valleys, Oreg., in the Sacra-mento Valley and in Fresno County, Calif. Prunes constitute nearly the entire pro-duction in these States. The scattered dots in the eastern half of the United Statesare practically all plums.
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