PRINCIPAL AIMM.K VA R I KT IES. 5 



The estimated production of the 22 principal sorts that comprised 

 the crop of 1915 and the relation of each to the entire crop for that 

 year are shown in Table TI. 



Table II. — Estimated production of the 22 most important varieties of apples, 

 showing the percentage relation of each to the entire crop, for the year 1915} 



Variety. 



Ben Davis 



Baldwin 



Winesap 



Jonathan 



Rhode Island Greening. 



Rome Beauty 



Wealthy 



Grimes 



Northern Spy 



York Imperial 



O ldenburg 



Gano 



Stayman Winesap 



Production. 



Relation 



to total 



crop. 



Per cent. 

 14.5 

 10.9 

 7.3 

 5.9 

 4.7 

 4.6 

 4.3 

 3.8 

 3.8 

 3.2 

 2.9 

 2.4 

 2.3 



Thousand 

 barrels. 2 



Variety. 



Limbertwig 



Yellow Newtown. 



Fameuse 



Tompkins King . . . 

 Yellow Bellflower. 



Golden Russet 



Wagener 



Mcintosh 



Gravenstein 



Others 



Total. 



Production. 



Relation 

 to total 

 crop. 



Per cent. 

 2.0 

 1.7 

 1.3 

 1.3 

 1.2 

 1.2 

 1.1 

 1.0 

 .9 

 17.7 



100 



Thousand 

 barrels. 2 



1,511 

 1,324 

 996 

 975 

 939 

 879 

 822 

 773 

 669 

 13, 547 



76, 350 



1 Monthly Crop Reporter, Apr. 15, 1916. p. 35. The yield is based on the estimates reported in the Thir- 

 teenth Census (for 1909) and upon annual reports of crop correspondents of the Bureau of Crop Estimates. 

 About IS per cent of the crop was classed as summer apples, 25 per cent fall, and 57 per cent winter apples. 



2 The totals do not include 320,000 barrels grown in Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Nevada, where 

 the data were insufficient. 



While figure 1 shows the estimated relative importance of the lead- 

 ing varieties on the basis of the quantity of each produced in the 

 country as a whole, figure 2 gives similar information on a State basis 

 and shows the estimated relative importance in quantity produced of 

 the principal varieties in the different States. This figure is also use- 

 ful as indicating in a general way the geographical distribution of 

 the more important sorts. 



The percentages of the different varieties shown in figure 2 are 

 given in Table III and in the supplementary text. 1 



In important apple-producing States not included in Table III 

 the principal varieties and their respective percentages of all apples 

 in a normal crop are : 



Kentucky. — Ben Davis, 16.8 ; Winesap, 14 ; Rome Beauty, 9.6 ; Early Harvest, 

 6.4; Maiden Blush, ..4.5; Red June, 4.3; Limbertwig, 4. 



Indiana. — Ben Davis, 22.8 ; Baldwin, 7.2 ; Grimes, 6.7 ; Winesap, 6.7 ; Maiden 

 Blush, 5.8 ; Rome Beauty, 4.4 ; Northern Spy, 4.2. 



North Carolina. — Limbertwig, 14.3 ; Winesap, 12.2 ; Ben Davis, 7.5 ; Early 

 Harvest, 7.2; Horse, 7.2; Red June, 5.9. 



Tennessee. — Winesap, 14.1 ; Ben Davis, 12.2 ; Limbertwig, 12.1 ; Early Harvest, 

 8.4; Horse, 6.3; Red June, 5.4. 



1 These figures are taken from the Agricultural Outlook, Farmers' Bulletin 641, Nor. 

 23, 1914, p. 17. 



