1960 



ENCYCLOPEDIA OP PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE 



PRODUCT 



C5ider 



Vinegar 



Wme and grape jmce 



Dned fruits 



Farms reporting, 1909 



Number 



4,734 



8,645 



1,903 



13,252 



Per cent of 

 all farms 



1 9 

 3 5 



8 

 5 4 



Quantity produced 



Unit 



Gals 

 Gals 

 Gals 

 Lbs 



1909 



213,916 



191,915 



16,576 



857,903 



1899 



295,218 



180,338 



28,567 



2,533,810 



Frost and Precipitation in Tennessee 



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Average 



Frost 



Precipitation 





Date of 



Date of 





Station 



First 



Killing in 



Autumn 



Last 



in 



Spring 



First 



in 



Autumn 



Last 



in 

 Spring 



Annual 

 inches 



Clarksville 

 Byrdstown 

 Rogersville . 

 Elizabethton 



Trenton 



Johnsonville. 



Nashville 



Carthage 



Erasmus 



Knoxville 



Newport 



Hohenwald 



Decatur 



Memphis 



Bolivar.. 



Savannah 



Tullahoma. 



Chattanooga 



Oct. 20 

 Oct. 20 

 Oct. 22 

 Oct. 21 

 Oct. 20 

 Oct. 13 

 Oct. 24 

 Oct. 23 

 Oct. 11 

 Oct. 27 

 Oct. 30 

 Oct. 5 

 Oct. 24 

 Oct. 28 

 Oct. 26 

 Nov. 1 

 Oct. 16 

 Oct. 26 



April 3 

 April 11 

 April 15 

 April 22 

 Mar. 29 

 Mar. 5 

 Mar. 2 

 Mar. 4 

 Mar. 29 

 Mar. 3 

 Mar. 12 

 Mar. 15 

 Mar. 12 

 Mar. 24 

 April 11 

 Mar. 27 

 April 18 

 April 2 



Oct. 10 

 Sept. 13 

 Oct. 1 

 Sept. 30 

 Sept, 30 

 Sept. 22 

 Oct. 8 

 Oct. 3 

 Sept. 21 

 Oct. 1 

 Oct. 15 

 Sept. 13 

 Oct. 15 

 Oct. 2 

 Oct. 18 

 Oct. 19 

 Sept. 27 

 Sept. 30 



April 23 

 April 24 

 April 24 

 May 4 

 April 4 

 April 17 

 May 14 

 April 10 

 May 21 

 April 24 

 April 24 

 April 23 

 April 24 

 Mar. 27 

 April 10 

 April 10 

 May 14 

 May 14 



47 8 

 52.1 

 44.9 

 45,2 

 50.0 

 47,5 

 48.5 

 50.0 

 59 8 

 49 7 

 43 6 

 53 3 

 57 9 

 50.8 

 46 6 

 51.8 

 52.0 

 51.6 



Texas 



Texas is the largest state in the Union, 

 containing 265,780 square miles. Its 

 greatest length is 825 miles and its ex- 

 treme hreadth is 740 miles. The general 

 surface of the state of Texas is an un- 

 dulating plain, similar in appearance to 

 the lands of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebras- 

 ka and the Bakotas. There are moun- 

 tains in the northwest, heavy timber in 

 the east, and marshes along the G-ulf. 



The state in general has a warm dry 

 climate, varying in water-fall from tre 

 inches per annum in the extreme south- 

 west to 60 inches in the northeast. 



Divisions of Texas 



Prof. T. V. Munson has divided the 

 area of Texas as follows: First, the Gulf 

 coastal plain; second, the East Texas 

 forest region; third, the Bed Eiver val- 

 ley; fourth, the black waxy prairies; 



fifth, the brown chocolate plains; sixth, 

 the Pecos valley; seventh, the Bio G-rande 

 valley. 



The Gulf coastal plain extends from 50 

 to 75 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexi- 

 co, and varies in altitude from a few 

 feet, along a sandy beach, to 100 feet 

 some distance from the shore. This sur- 

 face in places is timbered with oak and 

 pine, but is mostly a black sandy prairie 

 well adapted to the growing of figs, 

 peaches, strawberries and vegetables. 

 Pears are grown in a limited degree, but 

 our observation was that blight was so 

 great an enemy to the pear that it is 

 doubtful if it will succeed commercially. 

 Oranges and lemons are grown success- 

 fully in a few sheltered places near the 

 coast. 



The second division, or the East Texas 

 forest region, has an elevation of from 

 100 to 600 feet above the sea. Here the 



