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"bearing age were estimated at 599,749, 

 while the peaches not of bearing age were 

 1,363,632, or more than twice that of 

 apples. This indicates a new stimulus 

 in the growing of peaches to which the 

 state is unquestionably well adapted. 



The counties with more than 100,000 

 bearing apple trees are Burlington, 104,- 

 009; and Monmouth, 181,232. The coun- 

 ties with more than 100,000 bearing peach 

 trees are Monmouth, 111,536, and Hunter- 

 don, 309,476. There are in the state 8,- 

 648 acres devoted to strawberries. The 

 counties that are the heaviest producers 

 of strawberries are Atlantic, Burlington, 

 Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester and 

 Monmouth. 



In the growing of cranberries, New 

 Jersey exceeds any state in the Union 

 with 9,030 acres of bearing shrubs. The 

 only state that approaches this area is 

 Massachusetts with 6,577 acres. Since 

 the whole area in the United States de- 

 voted to cranberries is only 18,431 acres, 

 it will be seen that New Jersey has 

 nearly half as much land devoted to this 

 industry as all the other states combined. 



Situated as it is on the Atlantic coast 

 and so near to New York, Philadelphia 

 and Baltimore, no other state has better 

 market facilities than New Jersey. 



Arthur J. Farley, in * Apple-Growing in 

 New Jersey, says; 



New Jersey has never enjoyed a na- 

 tional reputation for the production of 

 apples commercially. The last census 

 (1910) ranks the state as 45th in area, 

 11th in population and 23rd in the 

 amount of apples produced among the 

 states and territories of the United 

 States. At first thought it would seem 

 that New Jersey was not very well 

 adapted to the production of apples, but 

 when the area of the state is taken into 

 consideration it is clear that apple grow- 

 ing is quite an important industry. The 

 large amount of high quality fruit that 

 is being grown in the state at the pres- 

 ent time is good evidence that the con- 

 ditions are suitable for commercial apple 

 production. There are several successful 



* New Jersey Experiment Station, Circular 

 No. 30. 



orchards of 200 acres in the state and a 

 large number of smaller orchards that 

 are showing a liberal margin of profit. 



Favorable soil and climatic conditions 

 for apple production exist in a consid- 

 erable portion of the state, evidence of 

 which is shown by the fruit of high 

 quality that is being produced by grow- 

 ers who practice modern orchard meth- 

 ods. 



New Jersey apple growers are particu- 

 larly fortunate in being located within 

 easy shipping distance of such large 

 markets as Philadelphia, Newark, New 

 York and the seashore resorts. In addi- 

 tion to these large markets there are 

 many smaller towns and cities where the 

 demand for high-class apples far exceeds 

 the supply of locally grown fruit. The 

 reason for this can easily be seen by 

 comparing the population of the state 

 with the amount of fruit produced in the 

 state. Efficient railroad service, com- 

 bined with modern state and county 

 highways, make transportation rapid 

 and comparatively inexpensive. 



The state of New Jersey offers a wide 

 range in altitude, topography and soil 

 conditions. The altitude ranges from 

 sea level, along the eastern and southern 

 boundaries of the state, to 1,800 feet in 

 the extreme northern portion. The aver- 

 age altitude is somewhat below 800 feet, 

 enough to give suflScient air drainage for 

 the production of healthy, vigorous apple 

 trees and high-quality fruit. That por- 

 tion of the state lying to the southeast 

 of a line drawn between Trenton and 

 New Brunswick is a coastal plain region 

 having a maximum altitude of 200 feet. 

 The northern portion of this plain is 

 quite rolling, while the southern portion 

 is comparatively flat. Along the coast 

 there are large areas of swamp and tide 

 marsh, unadapted to fruit growing. This 

 applies to the eastern portion of Atlantic, 

 Burlington and Ocean counties and to 

 various portions of Cape May county. 



There are orchardists in the state who 

 have secured sufficient returns from the 

 sale of vegetable crops, grown between 

 their young apple trees, to pay for the 

 development and care of the orchard until 



