FRUITS IN WEST VIRGINIA, KENTUCKY, AND TENNESSEE. 3 



area that develops as slowly as this has, there is less danger from 

 such sources than where planting is overstimulated for any reason. 



CENSUS STATISTICS. 



The census statistics in 1909 and 1919 on apples, peaches, and 

 strawberries, which comprise the principal commercial fruits in 

 Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia, are presented in Table 1. 



Table 1. — Census statistics of apples, peaches, and straicberries in 1910 and 



1920. 



Orchard fruits. 



West Virginia. 



1920 



Apples: 



Trees of bearing age 5, 554, 731 



Trees not of bearing age 1, 735, 126 



Yield in preceding season 



bushels. . 4, 189, 162 



Peaches: 



Trees of bearing age 2, 049, 862 



Trees not of bearing age 651, 742 



Yield in preceding season 



bushels. . 706, 411 



Strawberries: 



Area grown acres. . 1, 006 



Yield in preceding season 



quarts.. 840,273 



1910 



4,570,948 

 2,772,025 



4,225,163 



1,424,582 

 1,441,188 



328,901 



Kentucky. 



1920 



3,742,936 



1,427,408 



1,280,549 



1,671,044 

 690,483 



459,681 

 3,112 

 812,049 3,194,624 



1910 



5,538,267 

 2,106,295 



Tennessee. 



2,245,402 

 1,110,744 



1,623,379 



1,553 



1920 



3,181,659 

 1,032,490 



7,368,499 1,258,878 



2,349,656 

 690,359 



1,285,441 



10, 876 



2,114,929 13,130,904 



1910 



4,838,922 

 2,117,246 



4,640,444 



3,163,737 

 1,190,727 



1,579,019 



10,761 



12,339.584 



The census statistics in Table 1 show that the total production of 

 apples and peaches was much greater in 1909 in Kentucky than in 

 West Virginia, while in 1919 the production was reversed. In Ten- 

 nessee the production of apples in 1919 was much less than that of 

 West Virginia, but the production of peaches greatly exceeded that 

 of West Virginia in 1909, and in 1919 still exceeded it, though to a 

 less extent. In Tennessee and Kentucky, however, the apples and 

 peaches are chiefly consumed in the immediate vicinity of the places 

 in which they are grown, and large quantities are shipped in from 

 other States. The relatively large production in Tennessee and Ken- 

 tucky comes from a great number of small orchards widely dis- 

 tributed, while in West Virginia it comes from relatively few 

 orchards of large size. In the latter State a large part of both the 

 apple and peach crops is shipped to the large city markets. 



SHIPMENTS OF PEACHES IN 1914, 1920, AND 1921. 



The shipments of peaches from each section of the United States 

 for the year 1914 were compiled by the Office of Markets of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture (now a part of the Bureau of Agricultural 

 Economics) and maps were made giving the location of the sections 

 {59). The location of the various shipping points in this area may 

 be seen by referring to the map shown as Figure 3 in Department 

 Bulletin 298 and the size of the shipments from each point by re- 

 ferring to Table 2. In 1921 frosts in the late spring caused a crop 

 failure in Kentucky and West Virginia, and no figures are given 

 for that year. 



