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8 BULLETIN 1415, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
in Delta County, and Montrose in Montrose County. On _ the 
eastern slope there are considerable plantings in Fremort County. 
Intensive cultural methods typical of the western apple region are 
employed, especially in Grand Valley. Jonathan, Winesap, Rome 
Beauty, and the Ben Davis group are leading varieties. 
UTAH * 
The commercial apple sections of Utah are in five or six counties in 
the region east of Great Salt Lake. The Provo and Tremonton 
districts are prominent. Production is increasing, but average 
shipments are less than 1,000 carloads. There is some local trade 
with towns and mining camps. Heavy shipments of box and bulk 
stock are made to southwestern markets. The leading varieties are 
Jonathan, Winesap, and the Ben Davis group. 
MONTANA 
Heavy plantings were made in the Bitter Root Valley in western 
Montana, including many orchards of large area, but some of these 
have been neglected, because of market depression at critical times 
in their development and adverse climatic conditions. Volume of 
production at present is not great. The McIntosh does well in this 
section and is the leading commercial variety. 
NEW MEXICO 
Pecos Valley is the principal apple section in New Mexico, with 
8,000 to 10,000 acres around Greenfield, Dexter, and Hagerman. 
There is also a small shipping district in the southwestern part of the 
State. The harvest season in New Mexico is early enough to permit 
shipments of choice fall varieties to markets of southern Texas before 
there is much competition from the Northwest. The first consider- 
able offerings of boxed Jonathans are from Pecos Valley. Varieties 
of the Ben Davis group also are prominent. Frosts make production 
irregular, but in 1923 shipments exceeded 1,300 cars. 
BRITISH COLUMBIA 
The Okanogan district in British Columbia has many conditions 
like those of adjacent apple sections of Washington. The excellent 
quality of its product makes it a competitor, although its main crop 
TT EE el Jonathan, Wealthy, Rome Beauty, Winesap, 
and others which constitute four-fifths of the crop—enter the market 
a few weeks later in the season. 
The combined Okanogan districts of British Columbia reported 
1,103,550 trees in 1920, of which 205,787 were Jonathan, 159,051 
McIntosh and 109,859 Wagener, 91,322 Wealthy, 66,776 Delicious, 
and 38,802 Yellow Newtown. The Creston district reported 98,101 
trees with Wealthy, Jonathan, Wagener, and McIntosh as leading 
varieties. The three Kootenay Lake districts reported 94,197 trees; 
the Kootenay River districts 112,893, and other sections 25,104. 
The total of all the districts was 1,443,845. Average yield of 56 com- 
mercial orchards of an official survey was 272 bushels per acre at an 
average cost of $1.14 per bushel in 1921. The average commercial 
crop of British Columbia (1920-1923) is over 3,000,000 boxes a year 
and is usually one-fifth to one-fourth of the commercial crop of 
