PEACH SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION IN 1914. 5 
AREAS OF COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION. ~ 
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A glance at the map (fig. 3) shows that the use of State names to 
designate commercial peach areas is often misleading. In certain 
cases it leads to useless subdivision of a single continuous producing 
area. Such is the case when we speak of the West Virginia, Maryland, 
and Pennsylvania peach areas separately, for the bulk of the ship- 
ments from these three States comes from a few contiguous counties 
forming a rather compact producing area extending from northeastern 
West Virginia through western Maryland and southern Pennsylvania. 
5000 CARS 
Be GEORGIA 
LO $00 1000. 1500 2000 2500 3000 3560 4000 4500 
SEES CALIFORNIA 
S3 WASH/NGTON 
B OH/0 
EE M//CH/IGAN 
SB COLORADO 
mes WEST VIRGINIA 
Te VV LW JERSEY 
aes TAY 
SESE MARYLAND 
EES ARKANSAS 
Wesessa PEWNVSYLVANIA 
BEES DELAWARE 
mee /DAHO 
BEES CONNECTICUT 
sass TEXAS 
SE /LLINOIS 
Ge OREGON 
mS NEW YORK 
Ea M/SSOUR/ 
EB NORTH CAROLINA 
ER ALABAMA 
GB NEW MEXICO 
@ KENTUCKY 
B TENNESSEE 
@ OKLAHOMA 
B SOUTH CAROLINA 
B V/RGINIA 
Fic. 2—Relative bulk of peach shipments in 1914. 
This area could be accurately referred to either as the Central Appa- 
lachian or Eastern Mountain district. 
There is no geographical nor economic reason for distinguishing the 
shipments of central Alabama, central Georgia, and South Carolina 
by their respective State names. The greater part of the commercial 
crop of these three States is produced in what is essentially a single 
commercial area. North Georgia and southeastern Tennessee consti- 
tute a rather distinct district with somewhat later shipping dates, 
which, geographically, should be known as the Southern Appa- 
lachian or Southern Mountain district. 
