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2. A high class of persons is engaged in fruit-growing; 

 climate is delightful; scenery beautiful and social conditions 

 good. 



3. Centralized planting. 



4. Good storage and shipping facilities. 



5. Fruit very well known and widely advertised. 



6. Prices received for output relatively high. 



Disadvantages. 



1. High land values. 



2. Little opportunity for diversification. 



3. Yields much lower than the average for the Wenatchee and 

 Yakimai valleys. 



4. Apple-scab bad in certain years. 



5. Distance from market. 



Rogue River Valley 

 Advantages. 



1. Climatic and social conditions ideal; beautiful scenery. 



2. Good roads and centralized planting. 



Disadvantages. 



1. Drought has greatly reduced the crop in certain years, 

 although irrigation is being adopted in some sections. 



2. Land values relatively high. 



3. Adapted to pear- rather than apple-growing. 



4. Frost-injury occasional. 



5. Yields low. 



6. Distance from market. 



CALIFORNIA 



Watsonville district (Santa Cruz and Monterey counties). 

 Advantages. 



1. Heavy annual yields, particularly where orchards have been 

 grown in the heavy " redwood " soils. 



