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apples had a yield in 1909, according to the same 

 source, of 12,332,296 bushels, while the yield in 1920 

 was 16,500,000.1 Peaches produced 1,686,586 

 bushels; pears, 666,023 bushels, while in 1920 the 

 yield was 1,100,000; plums, 181,188 bushels; cher- 

 ries, 338,945 bushels; while quinces, always a low 

 yield in Michigan, recorded 13,481. Grapes, which 

 produced 41,530,369 pounds in 1899, rose to 120,- 

 695,997 pounds in the decade following.- 



The distribution of this production by counties in- 

 dicates the areas in which the fruit crop bulks largest 

 in the agricultural economy of the State. The 

 counties yielding more than one-half million bushels 

 of orchard fruit in 1909 include Allegan, Berrien, 

 Kent, Oceana, Van Buren and Grand Traverse, 

 arranged in the order of their relative importance. 

 Allegan County in that year had an orchard crop of 

 more than one million bushels. Among central and 

 eastern counties, which rank high in field crops, the 

 fruit counted for relatively less; thus, Genesee 

 County produced only 143,800 bushels of orchard 

 fruit; Lenawee, 254,514, and Hillsdale, 186,917 

 bushels. That hardy fruits comprised the main crop 

 of these same counties is indicated by Genesee's out- 

 put of 130,568 bushels of apples; while Lenawee's 

 apple yield was 230,581 bushels, and Hillsdale's, 

 164,432 bushels. Hardy fruits, like apples, plums 

 and cherries are well distributed throughout the 



'Thirteenth U. S. Census— Abstract. 411. 



='U. S. Dept. Agr.: "Monthly Crop Reporter," April, 1921, 



