6 BULLETIN 298, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Delaware and New Jersey peaches are properly so called, since the 
shipping district in each case covers a large part of the State. Com- 
mercially, however, they constitute essentially one crop, all produced 
under similar climatic conditions and naturally supplying the same 
markets. : 
The Michigan, Ohio, and New York peach-shipping regions could 
be more accurately described as the Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, and 
Lake Ontario districts. In each case heavy shipments originate 
chiefly in a narrow belt close to the lake and are confined to a very 
small part of the agricultural area of the State. 
Missouri peaches are not essentially different from the bulk of the 
Arkansas and a part of the Oklahoma crop. Most of the shipments 
of the three States could fairly be called Ozark peaches. Texas has 
a distinct shipping area in a region of lower altitudes and earlier 
season. 
Colorado as a whole is not a peach State. It has an important 
shipping area, but it.is almost wholly confined to two counties. 
If the commercial movement of the peach crop of the country is 
to be reported daily with a degree of accuracy which will assist 
materially in its distribution and marketing, the chief shippimg areas 
should be grouped somewhat as follows: 
(1) Southeastern—Including the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, 
Alabama, and eastern Tennessee. 
(2) Southwestern—Including Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Okla- 
homa, and Missouri. : 
(3) Eastern—Including Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, 
Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, and Connecticut. 
(4) New York. 
(5) Lake districts—Michigan and Ohio. 
(6) Mountain districts—Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico. 
(7) California. 
(8) Northwestern—Including Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. 
It would be logical to include New York shipments in the Lake 
district, but the trade is accustomed to think of the New York crop 
as a separate unit in the national supply. 
The suggested grouping provides for practically all car-lot move- 
ment except from a few localities of minor importance in Kentucky, 
western Tennessee, southern Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and West Vir- 
ginia. These points might constitute a ninth group—the Ohio 
Valley. 
PRESENTATION OF THE DATA. 
The tabulated statement which is placed at the end of the bulletin 
shows the peach-shipping stations, and the number of cars reported 
as shipped from each point during the 1914 season, classified by 
States and to some extent by shipping districts. No attempt has 
