peaches: production estimates, etc. 



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well as of varieties particularly adapted for drying is extensively 

 practiced in some districts. The relative importance of peaches for 

 canning, compared with the rest of the country, is indicated by the 

 following figures from the Thirteenth Census. (Table IV.) 



Table IV. 



-Quantity and value of carmcd penvhe.s in (ktlifoniia and in the 

 JJniird Htatcs in 1<)0<) and J!)!',. 



States. 



Number of cases canned. 



Value. 



1909 



1914 



1909 



1914 



California 



1,149,590 

 317, 623 



2,922,637 

 485,269 



S3, 013, 203 

 740,495 



88,085,831 





899,942 







Tolalfor the United States 



1,467,213 



3,407,906 



3, 753, 698 



9,585,773 





A comparison of the figures presented in Table IV emphasizes 

 the great importance of the canning industry to the peach growers 

 in California. While the proportion varies more or less fi-om 

 year to year, depending largely upon crop and market conditions 

 in the different States, the actual quantity canned in -dny year 

 in other parts of the country is always small in comparison with the 

 California product. 



Practically the entire commercial output of dried peaches in this 

 country is produced in California. It is estimated that about 90 per 

 cent of the crop, as a rule, is either dried or canned and about 10 per 

 cent shipped in the fresh state. 



There are two main districts in which a large proportion of the 

 peaches are produced, viz, the Sacramento and the San Joaquin 

 Valleys. In the latter, the peaches are grown largely for canning 

 and drying. In the Sacramento Valley along the foothills the ship- 

 ping varieties predominate, but in the valley areas large quantities 

 of fruit both for canning and for drying are produced. 



According to the report of the California State Commission of 

 Horticulture ^ Fresno County now has about 35,000 acres of peach 

 trees of bearing age — nearly five times the acreage reported for any 

 other one county. 



The principal counties from the standpoint of peach growing in 

 the Sacramento Valley and foothills are Placer, Sacramento, Solano, 

 Sutter Tehama, and Yolo; in the San Joaquin Valley, Fresno, 

 Kings, Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, and Tulare; in other parts 

 of the State, Santa Clara, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, and 

 San Bernardino. Orchards are more or less widely distributed 

 throughout various other districts. 



^ Weldon, G. V. The acreage of fruits, bearing and nonbearing, by counties, in 1915. 

 In Mo. Bui. State Com. Hort. [Cal.], v. 5, no. 3, p. 105. 1916. 



