68 PLANT SUCCESSION AND CROP PRODUCTION 



The total apple acreage for 1915 was 211,463 acres.* The 

 sections are as follows : 



Northeastern section 77,105 acres 



Southeastern " 56,062 acres 



Northwestern ** 54,952 acres 



Southwestern " 23,344 acres 



If, however, we substract the acreage of Jefferson, Harrison, 

 Tuscarawas, Knox, and Coshocton counties, the northeast-southeast 

 border counties, from the northeast section, and add it to the south- 

 east section, it gives some 72,000 acres for the southeast and 

 61,000 in the northeast. There is, however, no sharp break in 

 the topography in the eastern part of the state north and south of 

 the glacial boundary. It is all part of the Allegheny Plateau. The 

 eastern half of the state contains sixty-three percent of Ohio's apple 

 acreage in spite of the fact that all over the state almost every 

 farm has a few trees. The chart (Fig. 13) shows the relation of 

 Ohio's apple acreage to Ohio's conditions and to the acreage in the 

 United States. 



'Acreage is a better sruide to tree crops than a single year's production. 



