Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-23

We really ought to add Maine and
Delaware to this list, as under ordinary
| conditions, the apple crop Of the first
state and the peach crop of the second
, exceed $1.00U,GU0 in value; but short
crops in the year preceding the census
! caused them to drop a little below the
miilionGOllar mark. Georgia reported
over s500,000 worth of fruit, and the
growing Importance of its peach indus
try will soon bring its annual output up
| to 81 5000 The low rank of Florida
will lie a surprise to many. but since
the series of freezes struck such ter
| rible blow to the orange industry the
state has lost its prestige as an impor-
! tant factor in fruit production.
| The apple is the most widely distrib-
uted fruit grown in the country; it is
| found i'll every state--in the cold North
and in the sunny South.
There was no apple report from Ari-
IONA. In Vermont the percentage is of
loss instead of gain. 1t is the only
state reporting a loss in apple acre
age. Perhaps the greatest surprise Is
| to find Missouri at the head of the list,
and the next greatest is to find the
prairie state of Kansas following close
after the great apple-producing states
of New York, Illinois and Ohio. North
Dakota at one climatic extreme and
| Florida ut the other, come at the bot
| tom of the list. In the first state it is
| too cold and in the second too warm for
apples.
Kansas reports the greatest acreage
| in cherries, Pennsylvania second, and
Michigan third. California has the
| lead in pears. New York second AMI
Michigan third.
Apricot trees are reported as grown
| in nearly every State i'm the Union.
| but with few exceptions the acreage is
| not suffio lent to produce fruit in any
commercial quantities.; the trees are
grown more as Il curiosity than any
| thing else California is the only State
| that can really be counted as n pro-
ducer Of apricots: so that this fruit is
really more limited in the region whore
it is successfully grown than the
orange even. California has $4,000
acres in apricots; oklahoma has 900
acres. and Kansas LOO but the latter
1000 acres do not yet produce fruit
enough to cut much figure even in local
consumption.
Pennsylvania, New Mexico.
Nebraska. Colorado. Washington. New
York, Idaho and Oregon report over
one hundred acres I'm apricots, but this
is the aggregate of many small lots.
1t is claimed, however, that some
sheltered valleys in eastern Wash
ington and Idaho produce apricots as
fine as California's.
California and Florida are the only
two states reporting olives. and
Florida only reports eighty acres-too
small an amount to be considered.
The California acreage is put at 5000
The following States report figs:
California. LEGO acres; Mississippi. 100;
Georgia. 12O: Florida, 100: South Caro-
lima. 20; North Carolina. 80. Here
again California is practically the only
producer.
The census bulletins r,ade detailed
report on oranges and lemons from
ONLY two States, California and Florida.
Arizona is credited with about 1900
acres of semitropic fruits, probably
mostly oranges and lemons. Some
oranges are grown in Louisiana. but
the acreage Is SO small as to be re-
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