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greater part of it has developed in the last thirty years. The 

 acreage of truck crops is distributed as follows : 



Watermelon 114,381 acres 



Cabbage 77.094 



Pea 56. 162 



Asparagus 37.97° " 



Sweet-potato • 28,621 " 



Melon. 28 .477 



Potato 28,046 



Tomato 22,802 



Spinage 20,195 



Celery 15.381 



Bean (string or snap) 12,607 " 



Cucumber 4.721 



Kale 2,962 



Beet 2,420 



Miscellaneous 82,601 " 



534.440 



These crops are grown over a large extent of territory, 

 which, for convenience of classification, is divided into twelve 

 sections or districts : 



1. New^England district : The field-crops supplying Boston and other 

 New England cities, and the greenhouse products supplying all the large 

 cities of the East. 



2. New York and Philadelphia district : New York state, Long Island, 

 New Jersey and Pennsylvania, which contributes largely to the New York 

 and Philadelphia markets. 



3. Peninsular district ; Delaware and the eastern shore counties of 

 Maryland and Virginia, which supplies all the northern and some of the 

 central west markets. 



4. Norfolk district : Eight southeastern counties of Virginia and eight 

 northeastern counties of North Carolina, which largely supplies northeast- 

 ern and central western markets. 



5. Baltimore district : Western Maryland, West Virginia and that part 

 of Virginia not in the peninsular and Norfolk districts, largely tributary to 

 Baltimore, Washington and northern cities, as well as local canning fac- 

 tories. 



6. South Atlantic district : North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and 

 Florida, supplying northern markets, east and west. 



7. Mississippi Valley district : Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Ten- 

 nessee and Kentucky, tributary to north central and northwestern cities. 



8. Southwest district : Texas, Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas, largely 

 tributary to St. Louis and Kansas City. 



9. Central district : Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa 

 and Nebraska. 



