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THE APPLE 



Production in the United States. The total production of apples 

 in the United States for 191 2 was approximately 38,3 10,000 barrels. 

 This yield was divided among the different fruit sections as follows : 



1. New York, 6,900,000 barrels, being about 18 per cent of the 

 total yield. 



2. The district comprising the southern Piedmont region, West 

 Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, and Tennessee, 5,900,000 

 barrels, being about 15.4 per cent of the total yield. 





Fig. 



r estern New York apple belt 



Showing the principal shipping points. This fruit region produced more apples in 1909 than 



Oregon, Washington, and California combined, more than any two states combined with 



the exception of Michigan, or Pennsylvania, and Missouri, and more than any one even of 



these three 



3. The West (California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Utah, 

 Idaho, and Montana), 4,425,000 barrels, being about 1 1.5 percent 

 of the total yield. 



4. New England, 3,060,000 barrels, or about 8 per cent of the 

 total yield. 



5. Pennsylvania, 2,100,000 barrels, or 5.7 per cent of the total. 



6. The major part of the remaining yield was produced in Ar- 

 kansas, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, 

 Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio. 



These yields did not differ materially from those of the preceding 

 year (191 1), although the total crop of 191 2 was about 2,500,000 

 bands larger than that of the preceding year. In 1902 the total 

 yield was 46,625,000 barrels; in 1903, about 42,626,000; and 

 in 1904, about 45,360,000. In 1900 the total number of barrels 

 was 63,780,955, and in 1890 it was 52,038,432. 



