. Yearbook of agriculture . 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


. Yearbook of agriculture . 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 GRAPEVINES APPROXIMATE ACREAGE, STATE ACRES STATE ACRES Calif. 256,363 3J96 N. 47,086 Mich . low. 11,554 Ohio . 2,032 OkU. 1,652 Pig. 67.—Two-thirds of the Nations acreage of grapes is in California. The raisindistrict centers around Fresno, where the land is flat and the sunshine almost con-tinuous, while the wine grapes are grown mostly on the .slopes of the valleys thatopen into San Francisco Bay. These wine grapes are now used largely for smaller center may be noted in southern California near San Bernardino. Inthe East the principal grape district extends along the southern shore of Lake Erie fromErie to Buffalo. :Minor centers may be seen in the Finger Lakes district of New York,the south shore of Lake Erie in Ohio, and in the southwestern corner of eastern grapes are mostly consumed fresh or made into grape juice. 468 Year-hook of the Departinent of Agriculture, 1921.


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