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BULLETIN 226. 



TABLE 6 Concluded. 



Areas- There are in Walworth township i, 773/4 acres of orchard 

 made up of areas as large or larger than one acre. This township con- 

 tains about 34}^ square miles. There are, therefore, 51 acres of apples 

 per square mile ; or a little over 8 per cent of the land is devoted to 

 orchards. In Ontario township there are about 40 acres per square mile, 

 in Macedon about 19 acres. With the exception of Walworth and prob- 

 ably Marion townships, it may be said that the area devoted to orchards 

 increases as we approach the lake. 



The total area devoted to apples in the county is about 21,000 acres. 

 The area of the county is 621 square miles. This gives 33.8 acres of 

 apples per square mile, or 5.3 per cent. The census shows that there are 

 305,299 acres of improved land in farms. The apple orchards equal 6.9 

 per cent of this area. 



According to the census report for 1899, there were 796,610 " trees 

 of bearing age " in the county. This survey shows the average num- 

 ber per acre to be 41.8. This number of trees would therefore repre- 

 sent an area of about 19,000 acres. Probably 2,000 acres were not of 

 bearing age, or have been set since 1899. This would seem to support 



