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STATES PRODUCTION 



IN BARRELS 



1906 38,280,000 



1907 29,540,000 



1908 28,850,000 



1909 25,415,000 



1910 23,825,000 



1911 31,499,000 



1912 47,825,000 



1913 30,900,000 



1914 40,505,000 



BETTER FRUIT 

 Apple as a Farm Product, Etc. 



Continued from page 8 



represent something like the commer- 

 cial crop. Estimates for 1896-97 and 

 1898 are from "Better Fruit," Vol. V, 

 No. 5, and estimates for 1911, 1912, 1913, 

 1914 are from various sources, includ- 

 ing the Pomology Department at Cor- 

 nell University and certain government 

 figures. All of the years are from esti- 

 mates of the American Agriculturist: 



TABLE VIII.— UNITED 

 OF APPLES 



1896 69,070,000 



1897 41,530,000 



1898 28,570,000 



1899 37,4(10.000 



1900 56,820,000 



1901 26,970,000 



1902 46,625,000 



1903 42,626.000 



1904 45,360,000 



1905 24,310,000 



The average for the five years, 1896- 

 1900, from the above table, is 46,690,000 

 barrels; the average for the five years, 

 1901-1905, is 37,178,200 barrels; and for 

 1906-1910, 28,582,000. It appears, then, 

 that there has been a regular decline in 

 production, the second period averaging 

 9,511,800 less than the preceding five 

 years, and the years of the third period 

 averaging 8,596,200 less than those of 

 the second. Note, however, that since 

 1910, every crop has been above the 

 average of the previous five vears 

 (1905-1910). The lowering of produc- 

 tion may be explained by the fact that 

 until about 1911 practically all bearing 

 trees (94 per cent estimated) were 

 planted previous to 1878, when a low- 

 price period set in and planting ceased. 

 These bearing trees are rapidly going 

 out with age and accident (wind storms, 

 etc.) and a decrease in production, 

 1896-1910, is to be expected. We have 

 further seen earlier in this chapter that 

 the last period of planting began about 

 1903, and it is also to be expected that 

 production will increase when the.se 

 trees begin to come in, about 1910-1913. 



Mr. L. J. Steele, in undergraduate 

 work at Cornell University, in the last 

 year, has conducted a questionaire with 

 nurserymen all over the country. From 

 a great many replies he selected thirty- 

 eight, from twenty-four states, and 

 from these he finds that 17.6 per cent 

 more apple trees were bought for set- 

 ting 1909-1913 than were bought during 

 the four years previous, 1904-1908, and 

 that the trees purchased in 1913 showed 

 a decrease of 5.3 per cent from the 

 number purchased in 1912. The high 

 planting had been increasing steadily 

 for about ten years up to 1913, when 

 the very bad year of 1912 caused the 

 above 5.3 per cent decrease. 1913 was 

 a good apple year, comparatively, and 

 though figures are not available, prob- 

 ably 1914 plantings increased somewhat 

 over 1913. There is a tendency to let 

 the pendelum swing too far; we go on 

 after evidence definitely shows that 

 apple plantings are hardly the most 

 promising agricultural investment. 



The following U. S. census figures are 

 very valuable. There were 120,152,795 

 bearing and non-bearing trees in 1890, 

 201,794.764 in 1000, and 217,121,689 in 

 1910. The maximum was not rcachc<l 

 till 1895-1896, and the commercial crop 



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