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Peach-Growing 



United States, are an epitome of a recent bulletin published 

 by the United States Department of Agriculture.^ 



North America. 



United States. — The most comprehensive statistical data 

 available regarding peach-growing in the United States are 

 those supplied by the Thirteenth Census (1910). There 

 were then 94,506,657 peach trees of bearing age and 

 42,266,243 not of bearing age. Table III shows the five 

 leading states on the basis of the number of bearing trees 

 in each ; also the number of trees in each of these states not 

 of bearing age : 



Table III. — Number op pIeach trees of bearing age in the 

 United States and in the five states which lead in this 

 respect; also number of trees not of bearing age 



It will be observed that on the basis of the total number 

 of trees in these five states, the order would be changed some- 

 what, Georgia following California. On the basis of the 

 number of trees not of bearing age the five leading states 

 would stand in order : California, Michigan (which had 

 approximately 3,000,000 non-bearing trees, this number 



1 Ruddeman, H. D., "Statistics of Fruits in Principal Countries." 

 U. S. Dept. of Agr. BuU. 483 (Feb. 14, 1917), 40. 



