No. 6. 



DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



405 



Apple. 



The total yield of apples in the United States for the year 1907 

 was 23,990,000 barrels, divided as follows: 



Barrels. 



Pennsylvania 3,000,000 



New York 2,800,000 



Maine 1,700,000 



Kentucky 1,500,000 



Tennessee 1,300,000 



Michigan, 1,200,000 



California 1,000,000 



Ohio 800,000 



New Hampshire 800,000 



Vermont 750,000 



Virginia 700,000 



West Virginia 650,000 



Massachusetts, 600,000 



Indiana, 600,000 



Oregon 550,000 



Washington 475,000 



18,375,000 



Barrela. 



New Jersey 400,000 



Connecticut 400,000 



Illinois 350,000 



Maryland 300,000 



Colorado 250,000 



Idaho 200,000 



Arkansas 200,000 



Wisconsin, 200,000 



Iowa 150,000 



Utah 150,000 



Delaware, 150,000 



Missouri 100,000 



Rhode Island, 100,000 



Montana 50,000 



Nebraska 40,000 



Kansas 25,000 



All other states, » 2,500,000 



Or a total of 23,9SO,000 barrels for the year 1907. 

 3S,2SO,000 barrels for the year 1906. 

 24,310,000 barrels for the year 1905. 

 45,360,000 barrels for the year 1904. 

 42,626,000 barrels for the year 1903. 



5,615,000 



A total of 174,666,000 barrels for the five years. 



Pennsylvania has produced in these five years, 21,800,000 barrels 

 or one-eighth of all the apples produced in the United States during 

 these years. During the year 1903 she produced one-fifth. 



It is only of recent years Pennsylvania has been recognized as an 

 apple producing state, but in this time she has gained the position 

 of second and it will not be long before she will stand at the head. 

 More than three-fourths of 1907 large apple crop was produced east 

 of the Allegheny Mountains, and a very large proportion east of 

 the Susquehanna River. Why is this? Ask those living in the non- 

 producing sections and they will place Providence in fault, severity of 

 weather, late frosts, «S:c., yet we find the climatic conditions about 

 the same, we must look for other reasons. 



The true reasons are, during the past ten years, since the advent 

 of the San Jos6 Scale, those people having orchards in the eastern 

 part of the State, noting the rapid decay of their orchards through 

 this pest became aware that if they did not give better attention to 

 their orchards they would soon be dependent upon other states for 

 their fruit. Consequently they pruned out the dead and otherwise 

 useless wood, cultivated and fed the soil, and gave their trees thor- 

 ough spraying, these combined gave them a new lease of life, they 

 responded to this liberal treatment and are repaying their owners ten 

 fold for their time and expenditures. They have also planted new 

 orchards and these are receiving modern methods of culture, which 

 will in the very near future render the horticultural branch of agi'i- 

 culture one of the best paying industries in the State. 



During the winter I spent several weeks travelling through the 

 western counties of the State, and have given particular attention 

 to the fruit conditions. I find the past season the apple crop, with 

 few exceptions was nearly a total failure. I have been through all 

 the large and small towns and found very few apples for sale, and 

 those a poor second, while oranges are offered in great quantities in 

 all stores where fruits are sold. Is_ it not a lamentable condition 

 in a section of the country so especially blessed by nature, to ne- 

 glect one of the most healthful fruits God has given us, and which 



