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In the apple districts, storage and manufacture fa- 

 cilities have developed to a very large extent to hold 

 the crop to a longer marketing season and to utilize 

 the low-grade fruit. Seventy-five per cent of the 

 evaporated apples produced in the country are con- 

 tributed by New York, mostly from the western dis- 

 trict. To only a small extent the storage facilities 

 are controlled by growers. The cold storage plants 

 were formerly located in the larger market centers 

 but the development of organization among produc- 

 ers is pressing home the suggestion that storage fa- 

 cilities near home that give a more broad and in- 

 dependent market outlook are to be preferred. 



Peaches are a poor second to apples in value of 

 fruit and number of trees. In 1909 their value was 

 $3,000,000 or one-seventh that of the apple. There 

 were 5,000,000 trees or about one-third as many as 

 of apples. In 1917 there was reported 53,500 acres 

 devoted to peaches of all ages. New York was elev- 

 enth in number of bearing trees, sixth in young 

 trees, and third in value of peaches by the 1909 fed- 

 eral census. 



The crop is much less cosmopolitan than apples 

 and is confined to two districts, both of which are 

 within the apple zones. The first is along the im- 

 mediate shore of Lake Ontario from the Niagara 

 Eiver eastward and extending south but keeping 

 rather close to the shores of Seneca and Cayuga 

 lakes. The section adjacent to the Niagara Eiver 

 enjoys almost annual crops. The second district is 

 in the Hudson Valley from Albany southward on 



