APPENDIX 



STATISTICS ON ACREAGE, PRODUCTION 

 AND VALUE 



Statistics of the 12th and 13th census show a decrease of 

 5.5 per cent in the acreage of strawberries between 1900 

 and 1910. This decrease, however, is less with strawberries 

 than with most other small-fruits, as is shown in the 

 following table: 



Decbease in the Acbeaoe of Small-fruits 



This decrease in strawberry planting was most rapid 

 between 1905 and 1910. This contraction followed a num- 

 ber of years of heavy and sometimes injudicious planting, 

 especially in the South and Mississippi Valley. The reaction, 

 however, was not as marked as that which followed the 

 boom years of 1865-70. At present the total acreage 

 apparently is increasing slightly. The value of the 1909 

 strawberry crop* as compared with other fruit crops of that 

 year, is reported by the census as follows : 



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