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large commercial interests, and in Kansas, in which the commercial 

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 Kansas possessed in the aggregate during the 5-year period repre- 

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 orchards in New York. Other similar examples might be pointed out. 

 The shipment of fresh fruit in 1914 from the principal peach- 

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 pi-incipal peach-producing States, for the 5-year period from 1912 to 1916, inclusive. 

 The production of five of the States not separately shown in the diagram, but in- 

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however, does not show the relative commercial interests so far as 

 California is concerned (see Table I and figure 6 for relative total 

 production), since a large proportion of the crop in that State is 

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