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amounts of apples. In the seven leading apple-growing counties 

 of Washington one-sixth of the farms are operated by tenants/ 

 but they report only 1 3 per cent of the apples grown. This, how- 

 ever, does not give an accurate picture of the situation, since 

 several of these counties are among the greatest in the production 

 of wheat, a fact which accounts for the relatively high percentage 

 of tenancy. Within these counties apple growing is a subordinate 

 industry. It is in such counties as Chelan (Washington) or Hood 

 River (Oregon) that the characteristics of the apple farm can be 

 found well isolated. In both of these counties the proportion of 

 tenancy is low in Chelan County, 6.6 per cent ; in Hood River, 



5.5 per cent. In Chelan County the tenants report only 4.5 per 

 cent of the apple trees of the county ; and in Hood River only 



5.6 per cent. For each of these counties the tenants report a 

 higher percentage of the total quantity of 'apples than of the total 

 number of trees, showing that in a few instances bearing orchards 

 are rented. 



Unlike fruit growing, the raising of vegetables is very fre- 

 quently done by tenants. In 1900 the tenants of the Western 

 States operated more than double their proportional number of 

 vegetable farms, and although the same classification is not made 

 for the census of 19 10, the situation is apparently unchanged. 

 The most important vegetable-growing districts of the West are 

 in the vicinity of Los Angeles and Seattle. In Los Angeles 

 county 52 per cent of the vegetable acreage is reported by ten- 

 ants, and about the same in King County, Washington, in which 

 Seattle is located. These vegetable farms are of small size, con- 

 sisting usually of a few acres of land rented for cash to Japanese 

 or Chinese gardeners. 



As in other parts of the United States, the tenant of the 

 Western division owns comparatively little live stock. In 1900 

 he had not much over half his proportional share; in 19 10 

 the situation was not greatly changed. In a few states, however, 

 the tenants have their full quota of dairy cows, while they un- 

 doubtedly have in all cases their full share of draft animals, 

 although it is difficult in the statistics available to distinguish 

 them from range animals. 



