8 APPLE GROWING IN CALIFORNIA. 



At the present time the apple business is somewhat discouraging, but 

 there is no reason to doubt that the time will come when it will be good 

 again. Periods of low prices always have a tendency to weed out many 

 unprofitable orchards, thus decreasing the acreage to the decided advan- 

 tage of those that are properly cared for or more favorably situated. 



In the annual reports received from the county horticultural com- 

 missioners for the past year, the bearing and non-bearing acreage of 

 apples in the various counties where these officials are at work, was 

 given. A table, which follows, has been compiled, showing the counties 

 from which these reports came, and the number of acres in each case. 



TABLE GIVING ACREAGE OF APPLES. 



County 



Bearing 



Non- bearing 



During the past summer a list of twelve questions was sent out to one 

 hundred and eighty apple growers in the following counties : But to, 

 El Dorado, Fresno, Humboldt, Madera, Mendocino, Monterey, River- 

 side, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Cruz, Sonoma, and Tehama. 

 Sixty-eight out of the total number to whom the list was sent responded, 

 and the answers to these questions contain so much of interest that a 

 table has been prepared, giving them in full just as they were received, 

 with the exception of question No. 12, which is answered under the 

 heading ''Varieties." 



