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Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture^ 1921. 



Fig. 64. — Three major centers of peach acreage are shown on the map — the early 

 peach district in central Georgia, the late peach district along Lake Ontario in New 

 York, and the canning and dried peach districts in California. An important peach 

 district is rapidly developing in Moore County, N. C. Minor centers may be noted in 

 southern New Jersey, in western Mai-yland and adjacent counties of West Virginia, along 

 the Michigan shore of Lake Michigan, in western Arkansas, and in northeastern Texas. 

 Cold, dry winters prevent peaches b(>ing grown to the northwest of a line drawn from 

 Chicago to Omaha, thence to Amarillo, Tex. The influence of the (ireat Lakes in 

 tempering winter temperatures on their leeward shores and retarding growth in spring 

 till danger of frost is past is evident on the map. 



PEACH PRODUCTION, 191S 



Fig. 65. — California produced nearly one-third of the Nation's crop of peaches in 

 1919, Fresno County alone producing one-tenth. Georgia ranked second, with Texas a 

 close third. The New York crop was greatly reduced by a late freeze, but the New 

 Jersey crop was large. It is worth noting that the production of i>eaches this year 

 did not extend nearly as far to the north and west as the acreage. The Yakima Valley 

 in Washington, the peach belt east of Great Salt Lake in Utah, and the Grand Junction- 

 Delta district in Colorado show a production disproportionate to the acreage. The 

 season of 1919 was generally favorable. Although the number of bearing peach trees in the 

 United States dropped from 94 million in 1910 to 65 million in 1920, the production 

 was 40 per cent greater in 1919 than in 1909. 



