FOURTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART VI. 405 



THE APPLE ORCHARD. 



Farmers' Tribune, 



The census bureau collects a vast fund of information about the re- 

 sources and prfoductions of the United States, which show us just what 

 we are doing along certain Ines of industry. While we are made familiar 

 with the production of the grains and live stock, the output of our fac- 

 tories and the extent of our foreign and domestic commerce, but few 

 people have any conception of the extent and value tof the apple crop of 

 the United States. 



From the statistics of our exports last year, we learn that 459,719 

 barrels of fresh apples and 15.664,468 pounds of dried apples were ex- 

 ported, with a total valuation of $2,819,479. From the census report, 

 we learn that there were in 1900, 210,000,000 trees in the commercial or- 

 chards of the United States and these dlo not include the trees in the vil- 

 lages and gardens of the country, but only those which are kept for rais- 

 ing apples, to be sold in the markets of the country. 



There was, a great impetus in raising apples from 1890 to 1900, the 

 increase in apple trees being over 75.000,000, and the yield from the com- 

 mercial orchards for the year 1890 was over 175,000,000 bushels. Divid- 

 ing the country into districts, we find that the North Atlantic states have 

 29,500,z00 trees; the South Atlantic States, 25,500,000; the North Central 

 States, 92,000,000; the Southern Central States, 31,000,000, and the rest of 

 the country 13.000,000. This gives the North and South Central districts 

 123,205,000 trees — nearly three fifths of all the apple trees in the country. 

 The principal apple growing states have the following number of trees: 



No. of Trees. 



New York * 15,054,832 



Ohio 12,952,625 



Pennsylvania 11,774,211 



Michigan 10,927,899 



Misslouri 20,040,400 



Illinois 13,430,006 



Virginia 8,190,025 



Kentucky 8.757,238 



Indiana 8,624,539 



Arkansas 7,486,145 



Kansas 11,848,070 



North Carolina 6,438,871 



Tennessee 7,714,053 



West Virginia 5.441,112 



Iowa 6,869,588 



Total in fifteen states 201,794,764 



