BULLETIN 813, U. S. DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE. 
The commercial development of the lemon industry in the United 
States is of comparatively recent date. The total production in 
1899 was 877,000 boxes as compared with 2,770,000 boxes in 1909, 
an increase of 215.9 per cent. The rapidity of the development of 
lemon production in California is shown in Table I. 
Table I. — Shipment of lemons from California^ for the 82-year period from 1887 to 
1918, inclusive. 
Year ending. 
Oct. 31. 
Car- 
loads, b 
Year ending 
Oct. 31. 
Car- 
loads, b 
Year ending 
Oct. 31. 
Car- 
loads.& 
Year ending 
Oct. 31. 
Car- 
loads. & 
1887 
12 
20 
26 
34 
40 
52 
65 
145 
1895 
335 
565 
1,378 
1, 166 
903 
1,447 
2,924 
2,816 
1903 . 
2,649 
2,782 
4,274 
3,789 
3,507 
4,959 
6,196 
4,891 
1911 
6,891 
6,133 
c 2 304 
1888 
1896 
1904 . . . 
1912 
1889 
1897 
1905 
1913 
1890 
1898 
1906 . . . 
1914 
c 3, 032 
7,068 
7,186 
7 915 
1891 
1899 
1907. .. 
1915 
1892 
1900 
1908 
1916. . . 
1893 
1901 
1909 .... 
1917 
1894 ..... 
1902 
1910. .. 
1918 
d 6, 337 
Acreage, 1917 
Production, 
1917. 
Counties. 
Acreage, 1917. 
Production. 
1917. 
Counties. 
Bearing. 
Non- 
bearing. 
Bearing. 
Non- 
bearing. 
Los Angeles 
3,801 
4,000 
3,137 
3,549 
3,126 
1,015 
1,270 
2,300 
2, 395 
2,850 
2,071 
240 
Pounds. 
85,520,000 
23, 400, 000 
27, 448, 000 
31, 954, 000 
17, 584, 000 
14,000,000 
Tulare 
1,132 
2,327 
364 
1,534 
3,980 
1,300 
Pounds. 
4, 160, 000 
32, 768, 000 
132, 000 
San Bernardino . . . 
Total 
22, 451 
17, 940 
236,966,000 
Santa Barbara 
a Compiled from the reports of the County Horticultural Commissioners by Geo. P. Weldon, Chief Deputy 
and O. W . Newman, Assistant Secretary, State Commission of Horticulture. 
Some idea of the extent to which California is supplying the market 
requirements for lemons in the United States may be gained by re- 
ferring to Table III, which presents a comparison of all the imports 
of lemons into the United States, except from Cuba, and the ship- 
ment of California lemons. 
The Eureka, Lisbon, and Villa Franca are the important varieties 
of lemons grown in California. The Eureka variety is the most 
widely grown. The Lisbon variety is extensively grown in certain 
districts, particularly those near the coast, and its trees are being 
a Wallschlaeger, F. O. The world's production and commerce in citrus fruits and their by-products. 
Citrus Prot. League, Cal., Bui. 11, p. 69. 1914. Data from 1914 to 1918 furnished by the California Fruit 
Growers' Exchange. 
b The average number of boxes per car for lemons has varied from 310 to 390. 
c Crops of 1913 and 1914 reduced by frosts. 
d Crop of 1918 reduced by extreme heat in 1917. 
The lemon acreage in the counties of California where this in- 
dustry is most important and the production in the leading coun- 
ties in 1917 are shown in Table II, which also shows the location of 
the principal lemon districts in the State. 
Table II. — Acreage and fruit production of lemon trees in the principal lemon-producing 
counties of California, in 1917. a 
