UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



, BULLETIN No. 485 



Joint Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry 

 WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief, and the Bureau of Crop Esti- 

 S S*W4, mates, L. M. ESTABROOK, Chief *S^V^**TU 



Washington, D. C. 



January 20, 1917 



APPLES: PRODUCTION ESTIMATES AND IM- 

 PORTANT COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS AND 

 VARIETIES. 



By H. P. Gould, Bureau of Plant Industry, and Frank Andrews, Bureau of 



Crop Estimates. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Statistical estimates of varieties 1 



Important centers or areas of apple produc- 

 tion 8 



New England States 14 



Middle Atlantic States 16 



East North-Central States 18 



West North-Central States 20 



South Atlantic States 24 



East South-Central States 27 



Page. 

 Important centers or areas of apple produc- 

 tion—Continued. 



West South-Central States 29 



Mountain States 31 



Pacific States 36 



Estimated relative proportion of early and 



late apples in different States 43 



Estimated annual production, 1890 to 1916. . 44 



STATISTICAL ESTIMATES OF VARIETIES. 



From a study made in 1910 of nursery catalogues issued for that 

 year it appeared that the nurserymen of the United States were then 

 offering to the trade trees of at least 500 different varieties of apples. 

 It is to be assumed there was some demand for most of the varieties 

 catalogued, otherwise there would have been no inducement to propa- 

 gate them. The number of varieties offered for sale at the present 

 time is doubtless somewhat less than it was in 1910, as there is a 

 tendency to decrease rather than to increase it, but the decrease is not 

 very rapid. 



Note. — This bulletin is of general interest to those concerned with the apple industry. 

 The information which it contains in regard to the areas where apple's are grown exten- 

 sively and the principal varieties produced in them is based largely on reports received 

 from correspondents who were requested to supply such information and who were ad- 

 dressed in this connection because of their familiarity with the fruit interests in the 

 States in which they live. All diagrams and figures showing estimates, except as noted, 

 have been contributed by the Bureau of Crop Estimates. 

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