WEST VIRGINIA 



2031 



Production of Fruits in West Virginia 



Small fruits: 1909 and 1S99. The following table shows data with regard to 

 small fruits on farms: 



Strawberries are the most important 

 In quantity and value of the small fruits 

 raised in West Virginia, with blackber- 

 ries and dewberries ranking second in 

 quantity and third in value, while rasp- 

 berries and loganberries are thirrl in 

 quantity but second in value. The total 

 acreage of small fruits in 1909 was 2,913, 

 and in 1899, 1,994, an increase of 46.1 

 per cent. The production in 1909 was 

 2,337,000 quarts, as compared with 

 2,388,000 quarts in 1899, and the value 

 was $191,000 in 1909, as compared with 

 $149,000 in 1899. 



Orchard fruits, grapes, nuts and tropi- 

 cal fruits: 1909 and 1899. The next 

 table presents data with regard to or- 

 chard fruits, grapes, nuts and tropical 

 fruits. The acreage devoted to these 



products was not ascertained. In com- 

 paring one year with the other the num- 

 ber of trees or vines of bearing age is on 

 the whole a better index of the general 

 clianges or tendencies than the quantity 

 of product, but the data for the censuses 

 of 1910 and 1900 are not closely compar- 

 able and the product is therefore com- 

 pared, although variations may be due 

 largely to temporarily favorable or un- 

 favorable climatic conditions. 



The total quantity of orchard fruits 

 produced in 1909 was 4,710,000 bushels, 

 valued at $3,040,000. Apples contributed 

 about nine-tenths of this quantity, 

 peaches and nectarines most of the re- 

 mainder. The production of grapes in 

 1909 amounted to 3,224,751 pounds, val- 

 ued at $92,834, and that of nuts to 974,312 

 pounds, valued at $16,049. 



* Expressed in bushels for orchard fruita and pounds for grapes, nuta and Grs. 



* Included with "unclassified." 



' Consists of products not separately named by the enumerator, but grouped under the designation "all other.' 



* Includes hickory nuts, butternuts, almonds, pecans, chinquapins and other nuta. 



