PEACHES: PRODUCTION ESTIMATES, ETC. 23 
GEORGIA, 
Distribution-—According to the Thirteenth Census there were 
about 10,600,000 peach trees of bearing age in Georgia in 1910, the 
largest number reported for any one State. In the combined number 
of trees of both bearmg and nonbearing age, Georgia was exceeded 
by Texas and California. 
In yield California is far ahead of Georgia (see fig. 6), but, as 
noted under California, a large part of the peach crop of that State 
is used for drying and canning. In shipments of fresh fruit in 
seasons of a good crop Georgia normally leads all other States. 
In general the commercial peach interests of Georgia may be 
said to be in the central and northern parts of the State. A Ima 
extending from Augusta (in the east-central part of the State) in 
a southwesterly direction toward Albany until it cuts the thirty- 
second parallel of latitude (which is practically the latitude of 
Savannah and Americus), and then running directly west to the 
Georgia-Alabama State line, will divide the State into two sections, 
of which the northern contains practically all the commercial peach 
orchards. 
The following are the principal counties in which peaches are 
grown: In the northeastern part of the State, Habersham, White, 
Banks, Hall, Jackson, Elbert; in the northwestern part, Dade, 
Walker, Catoosa, Whitefield, Murray, Chattooga, Gordon, Pickens, 
Floyd, Bartow, Cherokee, Polk, Paulding, Cobb, and Haralson. The 
above counties are north of the latitude of Atlanta. In the west- 
central part are Meriwether, Spalding, Pike, Monroe, Harris, 
Upson, Crawford, Bibb, Marion, Taylor, Macon, Houston, Stewart, 
and Sumter Counties. In the east-central part are Columbia, Mc- 
Duffie, Warren, Glascock, Washington, Hancock, Putnam, Jasper, 
Jones, and Twiggs Counties. 
By far the largest center of production is Fort Valley, m Houston 
County. The next most important centers, on the basis of size, are 
adjacent areas in Crawford and Macon Counties. Several other 
counties immediately adjacent to these also contain large interests. 
Varieties.—In the central sections the principal sorts are the May- 
flower, Greensboro, Dime Queen, Early Rose, Carman, Waddell, 
Miley, Belle, Hale (J. H.), and Elberta. Those in the northern 
sections are the Carman, Hiley, Belle, and Elberta. Since the very 
early varieties if grown im the northern sections would compete with 
the later and more desirable fruit from central Georgia, they are not 
much planted there. The Elberta is planted in all sections of the 
State very much more extensively than any other one sort. 
