32 The Commercial Apple Industry 



occupy. These are the old orchards which have received 

 indifferent care for many years. 



HUDSON VALLEY 



The Hudson Valley is one of the well known eastern 

 regions, the important commercial plantings extending 

 along the Hudson River from Saratoga County south to 

 Westchester County, and including both sides of the val- 

 ley for a width of several miles. Tbe normal production 

 for this region is about 600,000 barrels and originates 

 largely in the counties of Columbia, Dutchess, Greene and 

 Ulster, with lesser amounts in Albany, Saratoga, Rensse- 

 laer, Orange, Putnam and Westchester. The industry is 

 very intensive about the towns of Coxsackie, Ravena, Ger- 

 mantown, Red Hook, Millbrook, Athens, Milton and Ulster 

 Park. 



Much of the land is rough and hard to work and this 

 region is not as well adapted to general farming as western 

 New York. The soil in some instances is more or less de- 

 ficient in fertility. 



The varieties grown are principally Baldwin, Greening, 

 Ben Davis and Spy, with considerable commercial quanti- 

 ties of Mclntosh, Duchess, Gravenstein, Holland Pippin, 

 Fall Pippin, English and Roxbury Russet. 



Trees are much the same in age as in western New 

 York, the orchards in many cases being even older. How- 

 ever, there is a larger proportion of young plantings and 

 orchards coming into bearing in the Hudson Valley than in 

 the western part of the state and particularly is this true of 

 Dutchess and Columbia counties. 



The apples from the Hudson Valley are shipped largely 

 by boat and rail to New York and eastern markets. Many 



