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Fig. 53. — The principal cabbage-producing districts are in the North, the largest being 

 the belt of counties in New York from Buffalo to Syracuse. In this district nearly one- 

 quarter of the Nation's acreage is found, mostly on the muck lands and the Clyde 

 eeries of soils. Other important districts are Long Island, N. Y. ; Burlington and (Glou- 

 cester Counties. N. J. ; around Norfolk and in Wythe County, Va. ; along Lake Michi- 

 gan from Chicago to Milwaukee ; in Green Bay County, Wis. ; around Denver, Colo., and 

 Los Angeles, Calif. Early cabbages are raised mostly in Florida, in the Young's Island 

 (S. C.) district, in Copiah County, Miss., and in southern Texas. 



Fig. 54. — The principal cantaloupe-producing districts are now located in the West, 

 California having over one-quarter of the Nation's acreage. The most important western 

 districts are in Stanislaus (Turloc district), Los Angeles, and Imperial Counties, Calif.; 

 in the Salt River Valley (Phoenix district) of Arizona; and the Arkansas Valley (Rocky 

 Ford-Ordway district) 'of Colorado. In these five districts nearly 40 per cent of the 

 Nation's acreage was found in 1919. Arkansas ranked next to California in acreage, 

 the principal districts being located in Hempstead and Sevier Counties. Other impor- 

 tant districts are Gibson and Knox Counties in Indiana, Sussex in Delaware, Gloucesr 

 ter in New Jersey, and Mitchell County (Pelham district), Ga. 



