PEACH SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION IN 1914. 5 



AREAS OF COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION. 



A glance at the map (fig. 3) shows that the use of State names to 

 designate commercial peach areas is often misleading. In certain 

 cases it leads to useless subdivision of a single continuous producing 

 area. Such is the case when we speak of the West Virginia, Maryland, 

 and Pennsylvania peach areas separately, for the bulk of the ship- 

 ments from these three States comes from a few contiguous counties 

 forming a rather compact producing area extending from northeastern 

 West Virginia through western Maryland and southern Pennsylvania. 



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Fig. 2. — Relative bulk of peach shipments in 1914. 



This area could be accurately referred to either as the Central Appa- 

 lachian or Eastern Mountain district. 



There is no geographical nor economic reason for distinguishing the 

 shipments of central Alabama, central Georgia, and South Carolina 

 by their respective State names. The greater part of the commercial 

 crop of these three States is produced in what is essentially a single 

 commercial area. North Georgia and southeastern Tennessee consti- 

 tute a rather distinct district with somewhat later shipping dates, 

 which, geographically, should be known as the Southern Appa- 

 lachian or Southern Mountain district. 



