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the extreme southern part of the state. The Yucaipa sec- 

 tion, as it is known, consists largely of young more or less 

 mountain plantings which, although limited in extent, are 

 somewhat intensively cared for and will doubtless be 

 responsible for an increasingly large production. Already 

 this region has shipped as many as 200,000 boxes of apples 

 in a season. 



TABLE III. AVERAGE PRODUCTION OF THE LEADING APPLE DIS- 

 TRICTS OF THE WEST 



Average 



Districts. Production 



1916-1919. 

 Packed Boxes. 



Wenatchee, Wash 6,686,675 



Yakima, Wash 6,015,250 



Watsonville, Cal 2,787,500 



South Idaho : },894,750 



Western slope Colorado 1,492,500 



Hood River, Ore 1,625,000 



WISCONSIN 



Apples are grown largely in home orchards, most of 

 which are distributed throughout the southeastern part of 

 the state and particularly in the counties bordering Lake 

 Michigan. Taking the state as a whole, Fameuse, Mcln- 

 tosh, Oldenburg, Northwestern Greening, and Wealthy are 

 the principal varieties. Harvesting period is somewhat 

 later there than in some states. 



There are three limited commercial areas in the state : 

 (1) The Sturgeon Bay district in Door County on Lake 

 Michigan, in which heaviest plantings are about Sturgeon 

 Bay, Egg Harbor, and Ephraim on the west shore of the 

 peninsula; (2) limited plantings, chiefly about Richland 

 Center in Richland County, Gays Mills in Crawford 

 County and Baraboo in Sauk County in the southwestern 



