6 BULLETIN 633, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



On the grain and live-stock farms and on the grain farms corn 

 occupies about one-fourth of the total crop area, wheat about half, 

 oats about 11 per cent, hay 5 to 7 per cent, with no other crop occu- 

 pying as much as 2 per cent of the area except in the case of apples 

 on the grain and live-stock farms. On the grain and fruit farms 

 the area of corn is smaller, and that of wheat is about the same as 

 in the two preceding groups, while strawberries rise to 5 per cent 

 and apples to 6 per cent of the entire crop area. On the fruit farms 

 corn occupies one-third of the total crop area, wheat oats, and hay 

 are about equally important, occupying from 7 per cent to 9 per cent, 

 strawberries occupy 9.3 per cent, and other small fruits 10.8 per cent, 

 while apples are nearly as important is in the preceding group. 



KINDS OF FRUIT AND THEIR LOCAL IMPORTANCE. 



Of the 17 farms here classed as fruit farms, strawberries were pro- 

 duced on all but one, and on this one there was an acre of new plant- 

 ing of strawberries. On three of these farms the area of bearing 

 strawberries was 1 acre; on four it was 1^ acres; on one it was 2 

 acres ; on four 2^ acres ; on one 3 acres ; on one 4 acres ; and on two 

 6 acres. The total sales of strawberries on 16 of these farms 

 amounted to $8,251, an average of $516 per farm. 



The next most important fruit is blackberries. They were grown 

 on 12 of the 17 fruit farms. One of the farms with 6 acres of straw- 

 berries had also 12 acres of blackberries. The other farm having 6 

 acres of strawberries had 10 acres of blackberries. Two farms had a 

 quarter of an acre of blackberries each, 5 farms had from 1 to LJ acres, 

 and the remaining 3 from 3^ to 5 acres. The 2 farms having large 

 acreages of both strawberries and blackberries also had large acre- 

 ages of raspberries, one 10 acres and the other 7. Three other farms had 

 from 1 to 2^ acres of raspberries. There were 5 acres of dewberries 

 on one farm and a quarter of an acre of grapes on each of 2 farms. 



Of the tree fruits, nearly all fruit farms had apples ; but only five 

 derived any income from this source, the largest amount being $250. 

 Seven farms also had small acreages of peaches, in only two cases 

 more than 1£ acres, the area in these two cases being respectively 4J 

 and 6 acres. The sales of peaches on the two farms last mentioned 

 were respectively $300 and 600 ; on the other three farms $15 to $75 

 per farm. Two farms had small incomes from cherries, one from 

 plums, and one from pears, in no case exceeding $100. One farm had 

 three-quarters of an acre in nursery stock, frbm which sales amount- 

 ing to $170 were made. The total acreage of blackberries on these 

 farms was 41 acres and the total acreage of strawberries 43; but 

 more than half the blackberries were on two farms, so that straw- 

 berries may be considered by far the most general fruit crop of the 

 region. 



