UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 BULLETIN No. 485 



Joint Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry, WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief 

 and the Bureau of Crop Estimates, L. M. ESTABROOK, Chief 



Washington, D. C. 



January 20, 1917 



APPLES: PRODUCTION ESTIMATES 



AND IMPORTANT COMMERCIAL 



DISTRICTS AND VARIETIES 



By 



H. P. GOULD, Bureau of Plant Industry, and 

 FRANK ANDREWS, Bureau of Crop Estimates 



CONTENTS 



Statistical Estimates of Varieties 

 Important Centers or Areas of Apple Pro 



duction 



New England States . . 

 Middle Atlantic States . . 

 East North-Central States 

 West North-Central States 

 South Atlantic States . . 

 East South-Central States 



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Important Centers or Areas of Apple Pro- 

 duction — Continued 

 West South-Central States .... 29 



Mountain States . 31 



Pacific States 36 



Estimated Relative Proportion of Early 



and Late Apples in Different States . . 43 

 Estimated Annual Production, 1890 to 

 1916 44 



WASHINGTON 



GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 



1917 



