6 BULLETIN 806, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
There is rarely a season in which the crop is not materially re- 
duced in some of the important peach-producing regions by the oc- 
currence of adverse conditions of some kind, the effect upon the total 
crop of the country depending obviously upon the importance of the 
regions affected and the severity of the conditions. On the other 
hand, occasional seasons occur when conditions are favorable in all or 
nearly all of the important commercial districts, and the result is an 
extremely large crop, as in 1915, and correspondingly low prices for 
much of the fruit. 
PIILLIONMS OFF LB OSPTELS 
VYEPCRS BOASYTFLS Oi LO: SEBO CE SO FS | FO FL. 20. SIGCSE: 
4EQ0Q COO  wrmmmmamcremen | 
423 000,000 
46,006 090 
1202 | 38,000,000 
1390? | 23.002,000 
| 
S2IOF | FZ OOG OOO 
429053 | 37002000 SS SS SS SSE 
SBOE FE OOD, OOO emma pe IE II 
S2O7 | a3, 902 000 = = sat ees eee | 
1908 |\7E,O00Q00C == ES Sass 
43902 | SE OCQOGIA SESS SEE ae as | 
SHO | FEB000,000 ea eS x SS 
42/1 \ 35,000,000 
19/2 | 52, 00G COO Soreness 
SLE | 4O,OOG COO REET ETEES «| | 
SOLE | EE OOG OOO RI AE eI IIE IEEE SEE 
| -WS | 64000000 ‘smmmm==emmee es 
| 
S26 \F3,002,000 
19/7 | FE, OCGOOO 
Fig. 4.—Diagram showing the annual farm production of peaches (in bushels) in the 
United States for the 19-year period from 1899 to 1917, inclusive. The farm pro- 
duction in 1918 was 34,000,000 bushels ; in 1919 (September estimates}, 50,000,000 
bushels. The commercial crop. in distinction from the farm production, for each 
of the past three years was as follows: In 1917, 29.000,000 bushels; in 1918, 21,- 
000,000 bushels; in 1919 (September estimates), 29.000.000 bushels. 
partment Bulletin No. 298, entitled “ Peach Supply and Distribution 
in 1914.” On this map the number of carloads from each region and 
the general period during which the fruit from different regions was 
being shipped are shown. | 
The peach season in each State and its relation in point of time 
to that of other States is clearly shown in figure 5. The height of 
the peach season in each State named in figure 5, with the exception 
of Florida and California, is during the Elberta period, that variety 
comprising a large proportion of the commercial crop in most States. 
Tn some regions it is practically the only variety shipped in quantity. 
The estimated average annual peach production by States for the 
5-year period, 1912 to 1916, inclusive, is shown in figure 6. Jt will 
