122 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Places. Bushels. 



Mt. Morris 10,500 



Clio - 3,500 



Geiicseevillo - - 500 



Rogersville 3,000 



Grand Blanc 2,500 



Total -- 02,825 



But this is net all, or half. It is safe to say that of the apples fit for ship- 

 ping, at least twenty-five per cent are still in the hands of the producers, a 

 part of wiiicl) will of course be retained for liotne consumption, and another 

 portion will yet be brouglit to various shipping points for sale. Adding this 

 amount to the shipments already made, and it swells the aggregate to 78,500 

 bushels. 



I am informed by the shippers that the price paid for these apples will 

 average about sixty cents per bushel, which would give, as the actual cash 

 value of this portion of the apple crop for the current year, $47,100. 



There are within tlie county three quite extensive e^stablishments for carry- 

 ing on tlie process of evaporating appies. One of these is located in Flint, and 

 two are at Fenton. Tlie aggregate production of all these factories is fifty 

 tons of evaporated apples, made from 20,000 busliels of green apples. The 

 aggregate value of the products of these factories is about §IC,000. 



There are in tlie county nine factories for making apple jelly. The total 

 amount of jelly made in these the present year is 13,000 gallons. In the pro- 

 duction of this jelly there were used nearly 32,500 bushels of apples, of a 

 grade somewhat lower than those used in the evaporating factories. This 

 jelly has a market value of seventy-five cents per gallon, or a total of §9,750 

 at wholesale. 



There is a very considerable business in the county in the manufacture of 

 cider, there being eleven mills of a daily capacity of 1,500 gallons or more, 

 besides some smaller concerns. In these various mills about 91,000 bushels of 

 apples have been converted into cider, making an aggregate of 283,000 gal- 

 lons, or 9,126 barrels of this liquid, worth at least $25,000. 



At the various evaporating establishments of the county, one of the products 

 is vinegar, of which COO barrels are reported to have been made. This 

 product at present prices has a commercial valwe of about $2,000. 



Bringing these money totals together, they are as follows : 



Green apples ...$47,100 00 



Evaporated apples 1G,000 00 



Apple jelly- -- 9,750 00 



Cider... _ _.. 25,000 00 



Vinegar. 2,000 00 



Total 5^99,850 00 



As the cash value of the apple erop of Genesee county for the current year. 



If my estimate of the acreage of orcharding is correct, there are, assuming 

 forty trees to the acre to be the average, about 100,000 bearing apple trees in 

 the county, and the value of ihe crop tliis year is shown to bo about one dollar 

 per tree. This income would pay the interest at seven per cent on a trifle over 



