406 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



These states during the last two years produced the following number 

 of bushels of apples: 



- 1901 1902 



New York 13,628,082 36,166,833 



Ohio 16,935,774 14,726,760 



Pennsylvania 14,507.153 19,814,648 



Michigan 8,060,191 16,991,754 



Virginia 12,975,112 7.533,936 



Missouri 6,125,196 10,023,048 



Illinois 5u648.096 9,354,659 



Kentucky 8,226,819 5,898,474 



Indiana 7,561,650 6,351,786 



West Virginia 7,351,548 5,333.476 



Tennessee 7,089,150 5,529,537 



Arkansas 3,798,850 5,318,390 



Kansas 3.649,422 5,461,024 



North Carolina 8,065.280 7,561,200 



Iowa 3,129,875 5,724,350 



Total number of bushels 126,752,198 161,789,875 



Total number of barrels 42,250,732 53,929,958 



The years 1901 and 1902 were poor apple years, the cropi in the for- 

 mer year being only 42 per cent of an average crop, and in the latter, 

 54 per cent. In the year 1900 these same states raised 207,402,004 bushels, 

 or 69,134,001 barrels, and that year the crop was only 69 per cent of an 

 average crop. 



From the above tables it will be seen that it is not always the State 

 that has the most trees that raises the most apples. Thus Missouri has 

 almost twice as many trees as has Pennsylvania, and yet it only raises 

 about half as many apples. This can be acounted for from the fact that 

 mbst of the trees in Missouri are young trees, while those in Pennsyl- 

 vania are large trees. 



The same thing will be seen in comparing Missouri and New York. 

 Missouri has a third more trees than New York, and produces less than 

 one third as many apples. Michigan and Missouri present the same 

 conditions. Iowa only has three tenths as many trees as Missouri, and 

 raises over half as many apples. 



There is a great differences in the different parts of the same State 

 as to their adaptability to raise apples. Thus certain parts of Illinois, 

 Missouri, Michigan and our State and adaepted to apple raising, v/hile 

 other parts will not grow them successfully. So well has this been as- 

 certained, that there are now thirty-five counties in the United States 

 which have over 400.000 trees each, while other counties in the same 

 states do not have enough to supply the home demand. The following 

 are the ten counties in the United States which have the most trees: 



No. of Trees. 



Bentbn county, Arkansas 1,613,365 



Washington county. Arkansas 1 .555,146 



Niagara county, New York 929,086 



