2 BULLETIN 1416, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
following 1909, planting in most apple sections was restricted because _ 
of the heavy production of apples and the high cost of nursery stock, 
labor, and materials. 
Comparisons based on the census are somewhat uncertain because 
the figures include apple trees of all descriptions, and do not indicate — 
the extent to which scattered, old, noncommercial plantings have — 
been superseded by the business orchard, but the light planting 
from 1910 to 1920 is shown by a decrease of one-fourth in bearing 
trees and of nearly one-half (45 per cent) in trees not of bearing age. 
The South Atlantic States led in number of young trees. Stat» 
having over 2,000,000 young trees not yet bearing were New Yo 
Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan. Greatest relative 
decreases were in the far West. In number of bearing trees, howeve:. — 
APPLES 
TOTAL PRODUCTION BY REGIONS, AVERAGE OF SIX-YEAR PERIODS 
[894-1899 TO NS1Oal 923 
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Fic. 1.—Quantity in production of barreled apples has been fairly stable 
the Pacific Coast States had doubled in 10 years and the Rocky © 
Mountain States had increased by one-half, while other regions, 
except the South Atlantic States, had decreased. The figures sung 
ort the conclusion that the recent rapid gain in production in the 
ar West has been mainly from plantings made some time ago, and 
that the region showing most rapid extension of late years is that of 
the Potomac, Shenandoah, and Cumberland Valleys. 
The forecast naturally suggested by the census figures is one of 
coming decrease in commercial production, when the trees in bearing 
have passed their years of greatest productiveness. Apparently the 
new plantings are not making up in actual number for the loss of 
old trees, although doubtless an increasing percentage of the new 
trees are 1n commercial orchards. 
PRODUCTION 
Changes in apple production have tended toward quality and — 
specialization rather than toward mere quantity. The present large 
