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being slightly in excess of the number of bearing age), Texas, 

 Arkansas, and New York (the latter with more than 2,200,000 

 trees not of bearing age). 



There is no state in the Union in which peach trees do not 

 occur, the smallest number reported by the census in any one 

 state being 465 (including trees of all ages) in Wyoming. 

 The interests are on a commercial basis in approximately 

 thirty-five states, while in at least twenty-five of them they 

 are of sufficient magnitude to form an important factor in the 

 agricultural enterprises of those states. Moreover, there is 

 much variation from one decade to another in the status 

 of the peach industry in different regions. For example, in 

 certain valleys in the Northwest there have been large 

 peach interests, but the trees were planted mostly as fillers 

 in apple orchards. As the apple trees have attained the 

 age when they required all the space, the peach trees have 

 been removed, certain centers thus ceasing very largely 

 to be peach-producing points. In a similar manner, but 

 for different reasons, the industry in districts in some of the 

 older peach-producing states, where there were formerly 

 extensive orchards, has been discontinued. For instance, in 

 certain counties in eastern Maryland, where twenty to thirty 

 years ago almost every farm had a commercial orchard, 

 there is now practically no commercial peach-growing. 



Canada.— TYie Census of 1911 reported 839,288 peach 

 trees of bearing age, with a yield in 1910 of 646,826 bushels. 

 Commercial peach-growing in Canada exists principally in 

 the lake shore districts of the province of Ontario, which 

 contain 794,192 trees of bearing age, leaving less than 

 15,000 trees in all other parts of the Dominion. In On- 

 tario there were also reported 890,455 trees not of bearing 

 age, thus making a total of 1,684,647 trees in that province. 



