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Fig. 60. — About 15 per cent of the acreage of apple tree.s of bearing age was in the 

 West in 1920, and nearly half of this western acreage was in the State of Washington. 

 New York, Tennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Virginia, however, exceeded Washington 

 in acreage. Most' of the apple acreage of the Nation is found in the Hay and I'asture 

 Region from Maine to West Virginia and Michigan, where the climate is cool, but owing 

 either to lake or mountain protection, the winters are moister and less severe than in 

 the interior of the continent. The southern limit of the apple area extends only a 

 little bevond the northern limit of cotton, ^nd the western, or moisture limit, is about 

 that of timothy (see Figs. 22 and 39), 



Fig. 61. — There has been very little planting of apple orchards in the West in recent 

 years, the higher freight rates increasing the difficulties of competition with eastern- 

 grown fruit. Less than 9 per cent of the apple trees not of bearing age were in the 

 West in 1920. Most of the acreage of young trees, it will be noted on the map, is located 

 along the shore of Lake Ontario in New York, in the lower Hudson Valley, in New 

 England, along the Appalachians from Pennsylvania to Georgia, in the upper Ohio 

 valley, along the T^ake Michigan shore of Michigan, and in the Sonoma Valley of 

 California. Trees not of bearing age numbered 36 million In 1920 as compared with 

 nearly 66 million in 1910. 



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