BULLETIN" 806, U. S. DEPAETaiEjSTT OF AGEICULTUEE. 



There is rarely a season in "which the crop is not materially re- 

 duced in some of the important peach-producing regions by the oc- 

 currence of adverse conditions of some kind, the effect upon the total 

 crop of the country depending obviously upon the importance of the 

 regions affected and the severity of the conditions. On the other 

 hand, occasional seasons occur when conditions are favorable in all or 

 nearly all of the important commercial districts, and the result is an 

 extremely large crop, as in 1915, and correspondingly low prices for 

 much of the fruit. 



The principal regions from which peaches were shipped in the 

 fresh state in 1914 are presented on the map shown as figure 3 in De- 



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Fig. 4. — Diagram showing the annual farm production of peaches (in hushels) in the 

 United States for the 19-year period frem 1899 to 1917, inclusive. The farm pro- 

 duction in 1918 was 34,000,000 bushels; in 1919 (September estimates), 50,000,000 

 hushels. The commercial crop, in distinction from the farm production, for each 

 of the past three years was as follows : In 1917, 29,000,000 hushels ; in 1918, 21,- 

 000,000 bushels; in 1919 (September estimates), 29,000,000 bushels. 



partment Bulletin I*^o. 298, entitled " Peach Supply and Distribution 

 in 1914." On this map the number of carloads from each region and 

 the general period during which the fruit from different regions was 

 being shipped are shown. 



The peach season in each State and its relation in point of time 

 to that of other States is clearly shown in figure 5. The height of 

 the peach season in each State named in figure 5, with the exception 

 of Florida and California, is during the Elberta period, that variety 

 comprising a large proportion of the commercial crop in most States. 

 In some regions it is practically the only variety shipped in quantity. 



The estimated average annual peach production by States for the 

 5-year period, 1912 to 1916, inclusive, is shoAvn in figure G. It will 



