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only ordinary care. If in sections where the conditions of soil 

 and climate are favorable for orcharding, every farm should 

 have a five acre orchard put out and given the care it requires, 

 it would produce more income one year with another than 

 the entire balance of the farm. This has been the secret of the 

 success of the orchards of the Northwest. There a vast terri- 

 ritory of land is covered with small orchards. Water has to 

 be used in irrigating the land, and as this is expensive, the 

 small acreage is enforced, but they have brought large returns 

 from the high care and culture that have been required under 

 the conditions. Thousands of acres of orchards may now be 

 seen under intensive culture through portions of Oregon, 

 Washington, Idaho and Colorado. Their fruit is being sent 

 into our eastern markets in large quantities and unless we im- 

 prove our eastern methods, the West will hold the best trade 

 in our eastern markets. 



The question is constantly being raised, with the very gen- 

 eral interest that is awakened in apple growing, — Is there not 

 danger from over production? 



While this may be possible, it is not probable. The same 

 question has been asked for the past half century, and apples 

 are higher priced and much of the time so very high as to be 

 prohil)itory in common use. 



THE PRESENT APPLE CROP. 



The crop of the present year is estimated to be about 30,000,- 

 000 barrels, which is less than half of what it was in 1896, 

 when 69,000,000 were produced in the United vSta:cs and 

 readily consume;!. From that time to the prosent the annual 

 production has ranged from 19,000,000 to 44,000,000 barrels, 

 while the increase in population has greatly increased the de- 

 mand for apples. 



In 1909 ]Maine produced 050,000 barrels of apples, in 19 10 

 900,000 barrels, while the 19T1 crop is estimated to be 1,350.000 

 barrels. 



The yields for all of New England for 1909 were 2,350,000 

 barrels. For 1910, 2,850,000 barrels, and for 1911, estimated 

 3,150,000 barrels. In New York, which is the leading apple 

 producing state of our Union, the yield in 1909 was 4,100,000 

 barrels; in 1910, 3,600,000 barrels, and in 191T, 5,200,000 



