Appendix 311 



The average yield of strawberries in the United States, 

 according to the Census of 1910, is 1700 quarts an acre. If 

 we apply this ratio to the Dominion statistics for 1911, the 

 area in strawberries then was 10,992 acres, divided approxi- 

 mately as follows : 



Alberta 7 acres 



British Columbia 978 acres 



Manitoba 6 acres 



New Brunswick 458 acres 



Nova Scotia 372 acres 



Ontario 7702 acres 



Prince Edward Island 109 acres 



Quebec 1355 acres 



Saskatchewan 1 acre 



10,992 acres 



The total acreage of strawberries in Canada is about equal 

 to that in the state of Tennessee ; it is one-fourteenth of the 

 total acreage in the United States. Between 1901 and 1911, 

 however, the Canadian acreage doubled ; while in the same 

 period that of the United States decreased 5.5 per cent. 



LOCAL CENTERS OF PRODUCTION ^ 



Atlantic states. 



The large acreage in New England, New York and Penn- 

 sylvania is not centralized, as in the South and West. The 

 market-gardens near Boston, mainly in Middlesex County, 

 maintain the standard of intensive culture established there 



1 The acreage figures are quoted mostly from the twelfth and thir- 

 teenth census of the United States. The figures of car-lot shipments for 

 1914 are from Bulletin 237, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Office of Markets 

 and Rural Organization. Acreage and production vary greatly from 

 year to year ; the figures are not intended to be an exact statement of 

 the comparative importance of the several districts. Many important 

 districts market most of the crop locally ; and it cannot be recorded in 

 carloads ; hence the census statistics on acreage are the fairest means of 

 comparison. 



