4° BULLETIN 614, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Yakima, Parker, Sawyer, Zillah, and Granger. Less intensive and 
somewhat younger plantings are found in the lower valley Hosea 
Granger and as far down as Grandview. 
This investigation was made principally in the vicinity of North 
Yakima and Fille. where the older orchards are located. 
The apple-producing areas visited near North Yakima are known 
locally as the Nob Hill, Broadway, and Fruitvale areas. The Zillah 
district lies in the lower valley about 20 miles southeast of North 
Yakima. This area extends from Buena to Boone and is most 
intensive in the vicinity of Cutler and Zillah. 
IMPORTANCE OF THE APPLE IN YAKIMA COUNTY. 
Yakima County has a larger acreage in fruit than any other county 
in the State. In 1914 there were 47,829 acres in fruit, of which 
41,955 acres were in apples. Twenty per cent of this apple acreage 
was in bearing. More than 4,000 cars of apples were shipped from 
the county in 1912; 1,995 cars were shipped in 1913; 6,243 cars 
in 1914; 3,150 cars in 1915; and more than 7,000 cars in 1916. The 
bulk of fruit now produced comes from the vicinities of Nob Hill, 
Zillah, Reservation, Selah, Grandview, and Sunnyside, and in the 
near future the Selah, Cowiche, Tieton, Grandview, Wenas, and 
Naches areas bid fair to show a much greater production, these areas 
in 1914 containing 49 per cent of the total acreage of apples not yet 
in bearing in the county. 
In some sections in the valley apple arelarels are being eliminated 
A the lands put in other crops. The apple, thane is by far 
the most important commercial fruit in the county, 88 per cent of 
the total fruit acreage being in apples. 
TasLe Il.—The principal fruit-producing areas of Yakima County, Washington, with 
the number of acres of different fruits in each.* 
/ 
Total acreage for— ‘ 
Coumiyjand ares: bat Bearing | Peaches ‘| Plums _ | Mixed 
Fruits. | Apples. | 3 nies and Pears. and §Cherries.} _ or- 
PPles- | apricots. | prunes. chards. 
Walame County. 2-2-2 2.<-5) 47,820) 41, 055 118528] mo 0547 1623 279 78 | 1,840 
INOD BEI See aeeeaeisemieite sosiae 4,820 3,977 1,476 254 ZOO stain eimeclatae Kes 7 373 
THING RR Ae So on onEaacabally Shae 3), LB 1,310 162 212 44 4 124 
Selahse sae Med cia testator ites 5, 880 5, 683 615 21 73 LC eee 86 
arene... 2sk jue | otc. Gee 3,250 | - 1,898 268 789 319 189 12 43 
Grandvieweaceess soeeeemecrae 4,412 3, 934 555 84 239 9 5 141 
Cowiche and Tieton.......-.-.- 3,973 3, 845 76 27 PAS Nae ane 4 69 
SUMMY SIC Seep oe eee aes 1,578 1, 402 496 67 77 UP sgonoosos 31 
Upper and Lower Naches....| 3,532 3,305 432 37 CD |Loss ent lee seem 113 
INCServatiOnns. ss cucices sees eee 3,486 3,304 817 150 LL ees [pe Sa meee 21 
1 From the county assessor’s Seeaei of the classification of lands in Yakima Commie: June, 1914. 
HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE INDUSTRY. 
A few white settlers came to Yakima Valley in the early sixties. 
The unlimited range encouraged stock raising; until the late eighties 
commercial fruit plantings: were unknown to the valley. In the 
