PEACHES: PRODUCTION ESTIMATES, ETC. 17 
MISSOURI. 
Distribution—The wide distribution of peach trees throughout 
Missouri is indicated on the map shown as figure 2. It is also shown 
by the fact that in 1910, according to the Thirteenth Census, 30 per 
cent of the counties each contained 50,000 or more trees of bearing 
age, while about 45 per cent of the counties contained 40,000 or more 
trees old enough to bear fruit. In most of these counties, however, 
the trees are in home or small local orchards which have little or no 
commercial importance. Commercial production is confined very 
largely to the Ozark region along the lines of the St. Louis & San 
Francisco and the Kansas City Southern Railroads, the principal 
commercial peach-producing counties being Oregon, Howell, Greene, 
Lawrence, and Newton. Interests of limited commercial extent also 
are found at various points along the Missouri River, but principally 
in St. Louis County in the vicinity of the city of St. Louis and in 
Jackson County, in which Kansas City is located. 
Varieties—As in many other large commercial peach-producing 
sections, the Elberta variety comprises the principal part of the crop 
in most orchards. Relatively small quantities of the Carman, Moun- 
tain Rose, Family Favorite, Champion, Belle, Heath, Salwey, and a 
few others occur in some orchards. 
NORTH DAKOTA. 
Practically no peaches are grown in North Dakota. 
SOUTH DAKOTA. 
No peaches are grown in South Dakota except a very few in the 
Black Hills district, in the southwestern part of the State. Even 
there they are a negligible factor. No recommendation as to varieties 
is practicable. 
NEBRASKA. 
INstribution—Peach growing in Nebraska is unimportant com- 
mercially. Except in four counties—Cass, Otoe, Nemaha, and Rich- 
ardson—which border the Missouri River south of the Platte River 
in the southeastern corner of the State, peaches are practically 
negligible even in local fruit production. Adverse climatic condi- 
tions, particularly low winter temperatures that kill the fruit buds, 
or even the trees, and frosts that occur during the blossoming period 
constitute the chief limiting factors. 
Varieties—Little attempt is made to grow other than the hardiest 
sorts. The Alexander, Triumph, Rivers, Champion, Crosby, and 
Chili varieties are among those most commonly planted. 
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