8 BULLETIN 806, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 
large commercial interests, and in Ka ansas, In which the commercial 
interests are almost negligible. Assuming that these estimates are 
accurately proportioned, the large number of small home orchards in 
Kansas possessed in the aggregate during the 5-year period repre- 
sented in figure 6 a larger producing capacity than the commercial 
orchards in New York. Other similar examples might be pointed out. 
The shipment of fresh fruit in 1914 from the principal peach- 
producing States is shown graphically in figure 7. This diagram, 
(LAHO | 702, 000 GY. 
FLA. 457; OOO BY. 
WEBER. 452,000 BU. 
COMM. 204, 000 BY. 
APA. 
CA. 
CAL. 
ALL 
WE! | 
9,689, 000 
f_ | 275,000 &U. 
Fic. 6.—Diagram showing the estimated annual average production of peaches in the 
principal peach-producing States, for the 5-year period from 1912 to 1916, inclusive. 
The production of five of the States not separately shown in the diagram, but in- 
cluded under ‘ All other,” was as follows: New Mexico, 87,000; Massachusetts, 81,900; 
Arizona, 57,000; New Hampshire, 26,000; Rhode Island, 20,000. 
however, does not show the relative commercial interests so far as 
California is concerned (see Table I and figure 6 for relative total 
production), since a large proportion of the crop in that State is 
used for drying and canning, and hence is not reported in fresh-fruit 
shipments. Furthermore, the shipments shown in figure 7@ are for a 
single season, and the relative position of many of the States might 
be markedly different in other seasons, depending largely on the oceur- 
rence in different regions of climatic and other conditions that are 
favorable or otherwise to the peach crop. 
