STATISTICS OF FRUITS IN PRINCIPAL COUNTRIES. 

 Table 1. — Fruit crops of the United States, 1909— Continued. 



Crop. 



Trees of 



bearing age, 



1910. 



Production, 

 1909. 



Value, 1909. 



Small fruits: 



Acreage. 



143,045 



49,004 



48,668 



18,431 



7,862 



4,765 



685 



Quarts. 



255,702,035 



55,343,570 



60,918,196 



38,243,080 



10,448,532 



5,282,843 



627,627 



$17,913,926 



Blackberries and dewberries 



3,909,831 





5, 132, 277 

 1,755,613 





Currants 



790,431 





417,034 



Other berries 



55,369 







Total small fruits 



272,460 



426,565,863 



29,974,481 







Total all fruits 







217,576,542 









The principal fruits of the various classes were the following, the 

 figures for 1909 being taken from the Thirteenth Census of the 

 United States: 



Deciduous Tree Fruits. 



Apples. — From the viewpoint of quantity produced, value of 

 product, and wide distribution of cultivation, the apple is the most 

 important fruit grown in the United States. The number of farms 

 reporting apple trees of bearing age in 1910 was 2,980,000, practi- 

 cally one-half of all the farms in the United States at that time. 

 The total production of apples in 1909 was 146,000,000 bushels, 

 equivalent in round numbers to 49,000,000 barrels of 3 bushels each. 

 The leading States were New York with 8,470,000 barrels, Michigan 

 4,111,000 barrels, Pennsylvania 3,349,000 barrels, and Missouri 

 3,323,000 barrels. In 1915 and 1916 the apple crop of the United 

 States, according to reports of the Bureau of Crop Estimates, amounted 

 to 77,000,000 and 68,000,000 barrels, respectively. It should be 

 borne in mind that the foregoing figures refer to agricultural produc- 

 tion and not to a so-called commercial crop. 



From recent investigations made by the Bureau of Crop Estimates 

 it is estimated that about 18 per cent of the 1915 apple crop consisted 

 of "summer" apples, 25 per cent "fall," and 57 per cent "winter" 

 apples. The three leading varieties were the Ben Davis, which com- 

 prised 14.5 per cent of the total crop; the Baldwin, 10.9 per cent; 

 and the Winesap, 7.3 per cent. It is estimated that in the disposal 

 of the crop nearly 56 per cent was sold from farm or orchard (ex- 

 cluding that used for cider)., 10 per cent was used to make cider, 19 

 per cent was consumed on farms for human purposes other than as 

 cider, and the remaining 15 per cent was wasted or eaten by live 

 stock. 



Peaches and nectarines.— The production in 1909 was 35,500,000 

 bushels. California ranked first in the production of these fruits 

 with 9,250,000 bushels and Georgia second with 2,500,000 bushels. 



