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from a belt of country along the Atlantic coast lying east of a line drawn 

 from Augusta (Maine) to Macon (Georgia); from southern Georgia, 

 Alabama, and Florida; along the north and south lines of railroad in the 

 Mississippi valley from the Gulf to Chicago, Saint Louis and Kansas City, 

 and from the celery districts of Michigan and Ohio. As more or less truck 

 is produced in all the states, it has been thought best, for the purposes of 

 this bulletin, to divide the country into districts, as follows: 



First. New England district: the field crops supplying Boston and other New 

 England cities, and the greenhouse products supplying all the large cities of the East. 



Second. New York and Philadelphia district; New York state, Long Island, New 

 Jersey, and Pennsylvania, which contributes largely to the New York and Philadelphia 

 markets. 



Third. Peninsular district: Delaware and the eastern shore counties of Maryland 

 and Virginia, which supplies all the northern and some of the central west markets. 



Fourth. Norfolk district: eight southeastern counties of Virginia, and eight north- 

 eastern counties of North Carolina, which largely supplies northeastern and central 

 western markets. 



Fifth. Baltimore district: western Maryland, West Virginia, and that part of Vir- 

 ginia not in the peninsular and Norfolk districts, largely tributary to Baltimore, Wash- 

 ington, and northern cities, as well as local canning factories. 



Sixth. South Atlantic district: North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Flor- 

 ida, supplying northern markets, east and west. 



Seventh. Mississippi Valley district: Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee 

 and Kentucky, tributary to north central and northwestern cities. 



Eighth. Southwest district: Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas, largely tribu- 

 tary to Saint Louis and Kansas City. 



Ninth. Central district: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa and 

 Nebraska. 



Tenth. Northwest district: Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. 



Eleventh. Mountain district: Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Colorado, New 

 Mexico, and Arizona. 



Twelfth. Pacific Coast district: California, Oregon, and Washington. 



On the truck farms of the United States, in 1889, by the labor of 216,765 

 men, 9,254 women, and 14,874 children, aided by 75,866 horses and mules, 

 working $8,971,206.70 worth of implements, upon 534,440 acres of land, 

 valued at $70,156,293.59, there was produced truck valued at $76,517,155 on 

 the farms after paying freights and commissions. 



The following table shows the total acreage of leading vegetables grown 

 upon truck farms of the United States: 



Vegetables. 



Total .... 



Asparagus 



Beans (string or snap) 



Cabbage 



Kale... 



Spinach 



Irish potatoes... 



Acres. 



534,440 



37,970 

 12,607 

 77,094 

 2,962 

 20,195 

 28,046 



Vegetables. 



Beets 



Celery.. 



Cucumbers 



Watermelons 



Other melons 



Peas 



Sweet potatoes 



Tomatoes 



Miscellaneous vegetables 



Acres. 



2 



15 



4 



114 



28 

 56 



28 

 22 



82 



420 

 ,381 

 721 

 ,381 

 ,477 

 ,162 

 ,621 

 ,802 

 ,601 



The business being very largely the creature of transportation compa- 

 nies, the leading trucking centers are consequently along the lines of 

 through railways or those having easy communication with the various 

 large centers, which are nearly always distributing points for this class of 

 produce. The South Atlantic states and southwest Michigan have also 



