Appendix 309 



The counties having the largest acreage in 1910 were : 



Sussex, Del 6,404 acres 



Anne Arundel, Md 3,937 acres 



Tangipahoa, La 3,311 acres 



Somerset, Md 2,859 acres 



Nerfolk, Va 2,758 acres 



Wicomico, Md 2,700 acres 



Colmnbus, N.C 2,548 acres 



Rhea, Tenn 2,399 acres 



The Office of Markets and Rural Organization, United 

 States Department of Agriculture, gives the following sum- 

 mary:^ "The eight most important commercial strawberry 

 districts in 1914 were as follows, ranked according to carload 

 shipments : Central California, 1905 cars ; Tennessee, 1571.5 

 cars ; Maryland, 1569.3 cars ; Delaware, 1374 cars ; south- 

 ern Louisiana, 1243 cars ; North and South Carolina, 967.3 

 cars ; Virginia, 779 cars ; Ozark region, 748 cars." The total 

 car-lot movement reported to that office in 1914 was 14,553.2 

 cars. To this should be added the large quantity that is 

 marketed locally or shipped by express. 



While accurate data are not available, it is probable that 

 the 143,045 acres of strawberries grown in the United States 

 in 1910 were considerably more than half of the world total. 

 The nearest competitor is Great Britain. In 1914 John 

 Weathers estimated that the total planting in England was 

 21,000 acres. 



Canada. 



The Dominion Census for 1900 did not give the acreage 

 or production of strawberries, but gave the total yield of all 

 small-fruits, in quarts. The Census of 1910 gave the num- 

 ber of "boxes" of strawberries produced that year; also 

 the number of boxes of other small-fruits. About sixty per 

 cent of all the small-fruits produced in 1910 were straw- 

 1 Fanners' Bulletin 237 (1915), p. 4. 



