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The effect of blitrlit in liinitin^' ]ilanting in other states has also had a 

 similar eft'eet. but in a lesser degree, in California. Thus, while our 

 acreage has greatly increased since the year 1910. many have not 

 planted because of the fear of blight and the possibility of losing an 

 orchard from this disease after the expense of planting and caring for 

 it during a fcAV years of its life. 



Another signiticant fact regarding the pear industry, especially of 

 the south and middle west, is that it has been a failure despite the fact 

 that the Kieffer variety, which is much more resistant to blight than the 

 Bartlett, has been grown. Such failure can only be attributed to the 

 fact that the growers have not made the effort characteristic of the 

 California pear growers in the fight against this disease. While we 

 should not glory in others' misfortune there is little doubt that the 

 failures of the pear growers in other states have had a beneficial effect 

 upon the industry in this state, and a better market and better prices 

 have come about because of scarcity of a cosmopolitan fruit, the produc- 

 tion of which has been limited by the attack of a fatal disease. 



TABLE SHOWING THE ACREAGE OF PEARS IN CALIFORNIA BY 

 COUNTIES IN 1917. 



Acres of pears 



County 



Alameda 



Butte 



Colusa 



Contra Costa 



EI Dorado 



Gl'^nn 



Humboldt 



Imperial 



Inyo 



Kern 



Lake 



Los Angsles -. 



Madera 



Marin 



Monterey ..--. 



Mendocino 



Merced 



Modoc - 



Napa 



Nevada 



Orange 



Placer 



Bearing 



800 



4e 



850 



oOO 



4C 



50 



82 



250 



190 



600 



.534 



1.1 



50 



105 



450 



100 



2tt 



.500 



700 



25 



!,000 



Non- 

 beailng 



2.=;o 



270 



20 



1.2.">0 



1.000 



600 



SO 



450 



1.075 



2,000 



5,450 



15 



90 



100 



I.IOO 



20 



4 



500 



2,400 



610 



Acres of pears 



Xoii- 

 bearing 



Riverside 



Sacramento 



San Benito 



San Bernardino .. 



San Diego 



San .Toaquin 



I San Luis Obispo- 

 ! Santa Barbara ._- 



Santa Clara* 



Santa Cruz 



Shasta 



Siskiyou 



! Solano* 



Sonoma 



Stanislaus 



Sutter 



Tehama 



Yolo 



Yuba 



Totals 



405 

 ,300 

 147 

 202 

 118 

 402' 

 141 



20 

 ,530 



50 

 100 



45 

 ,000 

 ,1.50 

 2:^2 

 109 

 6S0 

 975 

 495 



19,233 



593 

 1.700 

 76S 

 998 

 429 

 25G 

 2,4.S9 



223 



4lK) 



31 



15 



2.30 



5.55 



6 



S3 



154 



792 



1.100 



28,069 



•1916 figures. 



COST OF BRINGING AN ORCHARD INTO BEARING. 

 The prospective pear grower frequently wishes to secure accurate 

 information as to what it will cost to plant an orchard and bring it into 

 bearing. Figures of this kind mu.st necessarily vary witli locality and it 

 is exceedingly hard to secure information along this line. The follow- 

 ing estimate of the cost of developing a 20-acre orchard of pears in the 

 foothill region of Butte County was written for a recent number of 

 the Monthly Bulletin bv ]Mr. E. ^leriam. of Paradise, California: 



