CHAPTER XXXII 



EXTENT OF VEGETABLE GROWING IN THE UNITED 



STATES 



Vegetables are grown quite generally throughout all parts 

 of the United States, and their production constitutes an industry 

 of large aggregate proportions. The Thirteenth Census Report, 

 which gives the figures for 1909, shows that the value of all vege- 

 tables reported for that year was $418,110,154. The same year, 

 the value of all fruits and nuts, including small fruits, orchard 

 fruits of the temperate zone, citrus and tropical fruits, and edible 

 nuts, was only $222,024,216, or only slightly over half the value 

 of the vegetable crop. About two-fifths of the value of the vege- 

 table crop was represented by potatoes. The value of the vege- 

 tables other than potatoes was more than equal to the value of 

 all the fruits. The total value of the vegetable crop was slightly 

 greater than that of the oats crop and nearly two-thirds that of 

 the wheat crop of the nation. 



The above statements refer to the value of the nation's crop 

 as a whole. In some states the vegetable crop is of much more 

 importance as compared with other crops than in other states. 

 However, in every state except California the value of the vegetable 

 crop exceeded that of the fruits and nuts. In each of seven states 

 the value of the vegetable crop exceeded that of all cereal grains 

 combined. These states were Maine, New Hampshire, Massa- 

 chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Florida. 

 In thirteen other states the value of the vegetables exceeded 

 that of the corn crop. These states were Vermont, New York, 

 North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, 

 Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, and California. The vege- 

 table crop exceeded in value the wheat crop in twenty-one different 

 states in addition to the seven states where it exceeded in value 

 all cereal grains. These states were Vermont, New York, Wis- 

 consin, Iowa, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, 

 South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, 

 Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, 

 Nevada, and Cahfornia. 



The acreage and value of the potato crop and of other vege- 



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