PEACHES: PRODUCTION ESTIMATES, ETC. ‘ 33 
well as of varieties particularly adapted for drying is extensively 
practiced in some districts. The relative importance of peaches for 
canning, compared with the rest of the country, is indicated by the 
following figures from the Thirteenth Census. (Table IV.) 
Taste 1V.—Quantity and value of canned peaches in California and in the 
United States in 1909 and 1914. 
Number of cases canned. eseamned.| Value Value. 
States. | 
1909 1914 | 1909 1914 
Walifonmingpes nak. we ee Ae ce en a ares eae 1,149,590} 2,922,637 | $3,013,203 | $8,685,831 
PNG UE ORE OSH! SH a SS aes gine Nl eh ae a I Se 317, 623 485, 269 740, 495 899, 942 
Motalforthe Wmited States ..2--s.4-..----.---- 1,467,213 | 3,407,906 | 3,753,698 | 9,585,773 
A comparison of the figures presented in Table IV emphasizes 
the great importance of the canning industry to the peach growers 
in California. While the proportion varies more or less from 
year to year, depending largely upon crop and market conditions 
in the different States, the actual quantity canned in any year 
in other parts of the country is always small in comparison with the 
California product. 
Practically the entire commercial output of dried peaches in this 
country is produced in California. It is estimated that about 90 per 
cent of the crop, as a rule, is either dried or canned and about 10 per 
cent shipped in the fresh state. 
There are two main districts in which a large proportion of the 
peaches are produced, viz, the Sacramento and the San Joaquin 
Valleys. In the latter, the peaches are grown largely for canning 
and drying. In the Sacramento Valley along the foothills the ship- 
ping varieties predominate, but in the valley areas large quantities 
of fruit both for canning and for drying are produced. 
Aceording to the report of the California State Commission of 
Horticulture? Fresno County now has about 35,000 acres of peach 
trees of bearing age—nearly five times the acreage reported for any 
other one county. 
The principal counties from the standpoint of peach growing in 
the Sacramento Valley and foothills are Placer, Sacramento, Solano, 
Sutter Tehama, and Yolo; in the San Joaquin Valley, Fresno, 
Ings, Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, and Tulare; in other parts 
of the State, Santa Clara, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, and 
San Bernardino. Orchards are more or less widely distributed 
throughout various other districts. 
1 Weldon, G. P. The acreage of fruits, bearing and nonbearing, by counties, in 1915. 
In Mo. Bul. State Com. Hort. [Cal.], v. 5, no. 3, p. 105. 1916. 
