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The Colorado Experiment Station 
Table Ila.—Shows the estimated number of acres of bearing 
orchards in each district. 
Table III.—This shows the number of cars of fruit shipped 
from Grand Valley for each year from 1911 to 1915, inclusive. 
Tables Ilia, Illb, IIIc, and 111 d give the number of cars of 
apples, pears, peaches and mixed fruits shipped from each town 
in Grand Valley for the years 1911 to 1915, inclusive. 
Table IV.—This shows the six most important commercial 
apples of Mesa County, with their percentage of all apples grown 
for each district, also for the Valley as a whole. 
Diagram 4. Same as Table IV. 
Tables V, VI, VII, VIII and IX.—These tables give the prin¬ 
cipal varieties respectively of pears, peaches, plums, apricots and 
cherries for each district, and for the Valley as a whole. In the 
case of apricots and cherries, many varieties were unknown, and 
consequently, the percentage of fruits listed as “all others” is, in 
these cases, quite large. 
Tables X, XI and XII.—These tables show the number of 
trees of apples, pears and peaches, respectively, in each of the 
fruit districts, separated into the age classes as defined on Page. 
From this we learn that the Clifton District has 196,000 apple trees 
from seven to ten years old, and only 46,000 over sixteen years 
old (Table X) ; that there are 20,300 pear trees in the Palisade Dis¬ 
trict, and 47,750 in the Clifton District less than seven years old 
(Table XI) ; that the Palisade District contains 214,000 peach trees 
from seven to ten years old (Table XII). 
Diagrams 10, 11 and 12.—Adapted from the above tables 
and show graphically what these tables contain. 
Tables Xa, XIa and Xlla.—These tables are constructed from 
Tables X, XI and XII to show what part of all the trees of any 
age in the entire Valley are planted in each separate district. These 
are given in percentage form. Thus we see that 33.4% and 32.2% 
of the apple trees one to six years old are planted in the Clifton 
and Loma Districts, repectively, while only 6% are in the Palisade 
District, etc. 
Tables Xb, Xlb and Xllb.—By referring to these tables we 
may find what percent of the trees of any district are of any given 
age class. For example, from Table Xllb, it is found that 66.8% 
of all the peaches of the Valley were planted seven to ten years 
ago, when the fruit business was at its height. 
Tables XIII, XIV and XV give the percentage of trees in 
each age class for plums, apricots and cherries and also show the 
total number of trees for each age class and for each district. 
