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BULLETIN 485, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



apples are not grown to a greater or less extent. The distribution of 

 production based on the reports of the Thirteenth Census is shown 

 in the map designated as figure 8. 1 On this map each dot represents 

 20.000 bushels on the basis of the crop of 1909, which is the one re- 

 ported in the last census. The arrangement of the dots on the map is 

 definite and significant, being so placed as to show the geographical 

 distribution of the crop in each State by counties. The heavily 

 shaded areas denote sections of very large production. The clear 

 spaces do not indicate necessarily areas of no apple production, but 

 areas in which the production is so small that no county has a yield 

 amounting to 20,000 bushels. 



Fig. 9. 



-Outline map of the United States, showing the approximate distribution of apple 

 orchards of bearing age in 1910. Each dot represents 500 acres. 



Figure 9 shows the distribution of apple trees of bearing age, as 

 reported by the Thirteenth Census. In the same way, the distribution 

 of trees of nonbearing age is shown in figure 10. In these two figures 

 each dot represents 500 acres of apple trees. The arrangement of the 

 dots and their positions on the maps have the same significance as 

 those in figure 8. 



It is impracticable to present a complete inventory of the apple 

 industry from the standpoint of the distribution of the entire product 

 tion, but it is believed that an outline of the more important centers 

 and areas of the commercial interests will be of constructive value to 

 all who are concerned with the industry, and at the same time it will 



1 This map, also those designated as figures 9 and 10, are from the Yearbook of the 

 Department of Agriculture for 1915. 



