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Indiana, embracing Clark, Floyd and Washington counties, 

 shipped 101 cars in 1914 ; New Albany and Borden are the 

 centers of production. Sparta, Monroe County and Bay- 

 field, Bayfield County, Wisconsin, shipped about twenty 

 cars each in 1914. Minnesota has a considerable straw- 

 berry industry in Hennepin County, which supplies the St. 

 Paul and Minneapolis markets. Keokuk and Montrose, in 

 Lee County, Iowa, shipped eighteen cars in 1914. With 

 the exception of Colorado, none of the states westward 

 to the Rocky Mountains produces strawberries in quantity. 

 Nevada is least hospitable ; her state acreage was reduced 

 from fourteen in 1900 to five in 1910. Colorado's planting 

 totaled 1326 acres in 1910. Steamboat Springs, Fremont 

 County, is the largest shipping point. 



The first carload shipment of Alabama strawberries was 

 in 1902, from Castleberry, Conecuh County. This district 

 moved 222 cars in 1914, and the Cullman district, in north 

 Alabama, 100 cars. There has been much new planting in 

 Alabama since 1910, when the acreage was 1167. There are 

 no important districts in Georgia except where the East 

 Tennessee district dips down into Walker County. The 

 chief shipping point in Mississippi is in the Durant district, 

 in the central part of the state, which loaded sixty-six 

 of the 163 cars credited to the state in 1914. Between 1900 

 and 1910 the state acreage decreased from 1382 to 772. 



Independence, Louisiana, began to ship berries to northern 

 markets in 1879. All of the large output from this state — 

 1243 cars in 1914 — comes from a single parish, or county, 

 Tangipahoa. Independence, Hammond and Ponchatoula are 

 the largest shipping points. In recent years considerable at- 

 tention has been given to strawberries in Texas, particularly 

 in the Gulf coast region near Galveston, the counties of 

 Smith and Wood in the northeast, and on the lower Rio 

 Grande. In 1910 the state had 2161 acres; 667 were in 

 Smith County, which marketed ninety-nine cars in 1914. 

 Tyler and Winnsboro are the chief shipping points. The 



