AMERICAN FRUITS 



able, more particularly in Washington where 

 the value in 1909 was almost twenty times 

 as great as that of 1899. 



CENSUS OF APPLE TREES 



A SUMMARIZING statement of the gen- 

 eral results of the Thirteenth Census 

 relative to the number of farms re- 

 porting apple trees of bearing age and 

 those not yet of bearing age, together with 

 the number of trees in each class as of 

 April 15, 1910, and giving the number of 

 bushels of apples produced in 1909 and the 

 value of the crop has been issued by Direc- 

 tor Durand, of the Bureau of the Census, 

 Department of Commerce and Labor. Com- 

 parable data are given for 1900 wherever 

 possible. The report was prepared under 

 the direction of LeGrand Powers, chief sta- 

 tistician, and John Lee Coulter, expert sp^ 

 ciai agent, for agriculture. Further analyt 

 sis of the report may result in slight modi- 

 fications of the totals here presented before 

 final publication, but it is not expected that 

 they will affect materially the figures given 

 herein. 



Disease in Trees of Bearing Age 



At the census of 1900, taken as of June 1, 

 there were reported 201,794,000 apple trees 

 of bearing age, as against 151,323,000 trees 

 in 1910 (census taken as of April 15), a 

 decrease of 50,471,000 trees, or 33.4 per cent. 



In 1910 there were 2,980,398 farms re- 

 porting the growing of apple trees, or 46.8 

 per cent of the total number of farms in the 

 United States. The average number of 

 trees per farm reporting is given as 51. No 

 Teport was received in 1900 showing the 

 number of farms reporting. 



