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cent of the total number of bushels of fruit reported. The average 

 production of apples is about two to three bushels per capita. 



Of the crop of 175,000,000 bushels in 1899, the States of New York, 

 Pennsylvania and Ohio produced nearly 69,000,000 bushels, or over 

 39 per cent of the total crop in the United States (see Table 3). New 

 York justly claims first place in the quantity and quality of her apple 

 crop. Apples are grown in nearly all parts of the State, but it is in 

 the lake counties, Niagara, Orleans, Monroe and Wayne that the 

 industry has been most extensively developed. In 1900, fifteen states 

 outside of New York had a greater number of apple-trees than the 

 combined number in these four counties, but only nine of these states 

 gave a larger crop in 1899. No other county in the United States pro- 

 duced as many apples as any one of these. Only four counties ; one 

 in Illinois, one in Missouri and two in Arkansas had as many trees as 

 any one of these. 



The production of evaporated apples. Wayne county has come to 

 market the great bulk of its apple crop as evaporated apples. The 

 other counties sell nearly all their crop in barrels. According to the 

 last census (see Table 4), Wayne county produces over two-thirds of 

 the evaporated fruit in New York, and produces an amount exceeded 

 by only three states. Two of these, Oregon and North Carolina, only 

 slightly exceed Wayne county. This report includes all kinds of 

 evaporated fruit. Of evaporated apples, Wayne county doubtless pro- 

 duces more than any State in the Union, except, of course, New York 

 (see Table 41). 



TABLE 3. 

 Number of apple-trees and yield of apples, from the census of 1890 and of 1900. 



