APPLE GROWING 



Ingly the annual average crop of the last five 

 years, ending with 1910, was 8,596,200 barrels 

 less than that of the second five year period. 

 Comparing the first and the last five year 

 periods, we find that the crop of the last was 

 18,108,000 barrels less than that of the first. 

 These facts alone are enough to explain the 

 higher price of this fruit during the last ten 

 years. 



Heavy Plantings. — Moreover, it should 

 be further noted that this falling off in the 

 apple crop has been in the face of the heaviest 

 plantings ever known in this country. During 

 the last ten years old fruit growing regions 

 like western New York have practically doubled 

 their orchard plantings. Careful figures 

 gathered by the New York State Agricultural 

 College in an orchard survey of Monroe 

 County show that 4,972 more trees (21,289 in 

 all) were planted in one representative town- 

 ship during the five year period from 1904 to 

 1908 inclusive than were ever planted in any 

 other equal period in its history. New fruit 

 regions like the Northwestern States and a 

 large part of the Shenandoah valley of Virginia 

 have been developed by heavy plantings. These 

 three are all great commercial sections. To 



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