FRUITS IN WEST VIRGINIA, KENTUCKY, AND TEXXESSEE 



Table 3. — Apple shipments from stations in Kentucky. Tennessee, and West 

 Virginia in 1920 and 1921. 



[Data furnished by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics.] 



Shipping station. 



Carloads. 



Shipping station. 



Carloads. 



1920 



1921 



. 1920 



1921 



Kentucky: 



18 

 9 



1 



40 



West Virginia — Continued. 



Bunker Hill 



119 



102 



85 



75 



74 



69 



63 



47 



42 



35 



30 



26 



16 



16 



15 



14 



13 



13 



13 



12 



9 



8 



8 



6 



5 



4 



4 



4 



3 



3 



3 



2 



2 



10 













29 









Total 



2S 



45 



Cherrv Run 



3 











1 

 36 

 18 

 12 



10 

 9 



8 



3 

 2 



2 



2 



2 

 1 



:::::::: 





160 









Ewells 





59 







12 







9 





Belleville... 



2 





Duffields 





















1 







2 













1 







2 







1 







25 





1 

 1 

 1 



1 

 1 

 1 







1 















Tazewell.. 





9 





















Total : 



120 











Waverly 



Halltown 





West Virginia: 



763 

 546 

 390 

 359 

 348 

 325 

 306 

 218 

 151 

 144 

 134 



385 

 75 

 25 



242 

 4 

 36 

 38 

 31 

 9 

 14 



104 



1 



Martinsburg 



In wood 



Apple Grove 



Millwood 





North Mountain 







Charles Town 







Romnev 







Tabler.'. 







Huntington 











1 





Zalia 





1 



Ridgeway 



Berkeley springs 



Total 







4.630 



1.29S 







SHIPMENTS OF STRAWBERRIES IN 1914, 1920, AND 1921. 



With the growth of transportation and increased refrigeration 

 facilities a large industry in supplying early strawberries to northern 

 markets has developed. This industry is located chiefly in eastern 

 and western Tennessee and in the sections adjacent to Nashville, 

 Tenn.. and Bowling Green. Ky. In Tennessee and Kentucky the 

 strawberry is the largest cash fruit crop grown. In West Virginia 

 it is unimportant. 



The location of the strawberry shipping points in 1914 and 1915 

 may be seen on the accompanying map. (Fig. 1.) The shipments 

 from each point are given in Table 4 (60). 



DESCRIPTIONS OF THE POMOLOGICAL REGIONS. 



A description of the fruit industry of any large area proceeds 

 naturally by regions, each region embracing a part of that area in 

 which the prominent physical characteristics are in the main uni- 



