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MI8SOUBI. 



Distribution. — The wide distribution of peach trees throughout 

 Missouri is indicated on the map shown as figure 2. It is also shown 

 by the fact that in 1910, according to the Thirteenth Census, 30 per 

 cent of the counties each contained 50,000 or more trees of bearing 

 age, while about 45 per cent of the counties contained 40,000 or more 

 trees old enough to bear fruit. In most of these counties, however, 

 the trees are in home or small local orchards which have little or no 

 commercial importance. Commercial production is confined very 

 largely to the Ozark region along the lines of the St. Louis & San 

 Francisco and the Kansas City Southern Railroads, the principal 

 commercial peach-producing counties being Oregon, Howell, Greene, 

 Lawrence, and Newton. Interests of limited commercial extent also 

 are found at various points along the Missouri Eiver, but principally 

 in St. Louis County in the vicinity of the city of St. Louis and in 

 Jackson County, in which Kansas City is located. 



Varieties. — As in many other large commercial peach-producing 

 sections, the Elberta variety comprises the principal part of the crop 

 in most orchards. RelatiA^ely small quantities of the Carman, Moun- 

 tain Rose, Family Favorite, Champion, Belle, Heath, Salwey, and a 

 few others occur in some orchards. 



NOKTH DAKOTA. 



Practically no peaches are grown in North Dakota. 



SOUTH DAKOTA. 



No peaches are grown in South Dakota except a very few in the 

 Black Hills district, in the southwestern part of the State. Even 

 there they are a negligible factor. No recommendation as to varieties 

 is practicable. 



NEBRASKA. 



Distribution. — Peach growing in Nebraska is unimportant com- 

 merciall}'. Except in four counties — Cass, Otoe, Nemaha, and Rich- 

 ardson — ^which border the Missouri River south of the Platte River 

 in the southeastern corner of the State, peaches are practically 

 negligible even in local fruit production. Adverse climatic condi- 

 tions, particularly low winter temperatures that kill the fruit buds, 

 or even the trees, and frosts that occur during the blossoming period 

 constitute the chief limiting factors. 



Varieties. — Little attempt is made to grow other than the hardiest 

 sorts. The Alexander, Triumph, Rivers, Champion, Crosby, and 

 Chili varieties are among those most commonly planted. 

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