The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-07-27
SUMMARY OF THE
NATIONS APPLE CROP
(From The Packerl

much Detter conditions IN tne Darrel
apple territory lying east of the Rocky
mountains. Much of this territory, es-
pecially the middle west, practically
had failure last season because Of
freezing weather in the spring, and
the same conditions prevailed over
much of the eastern apple growing
area centerIng in Virginia, West Vir-
ginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and
surrounding territory. This year the
middle west has good crop over most
localities and while considerable dam
age was caused by frost in Virgiania,
West Virginia, Pennsylvania and some
other middle Atlantic states this
spring, there are prospects for fair
crop over much of this area and some
states in the east promise big crop.
The New England states promise
generally good yield this season.
Maine, according to reports to The
Packer, will rot have as many apples
as last year which was big crop, but
nevertheless there is good crop in
that state. Massachusetts has a fair
crop in sight, considerably larger than
last year. New Hampshire, Connecti-
cut and Vermont also have good pros
poets, as good or better than last year.
New York, the big apple state in the
east, promises nearly twice as many
apples as last year, but the govern
ment reports Washington, across the
continent, as the leading apple state
again this year in point of commercial
production although the New York
farm crop is the largest. The princi-
pal apple district is in estern New
York but there are many commercial
orchards in the Hudson River Valley
and also some good orchards in the
Lake Chamberlain region. From what
growers and shippers tell The Packer,
the increase over last year will come
largely in the western New York dis
trict.
Pennsylvania will have more apples
than last year but the southern part of
the state was visited by frost again
this year and in comparison with a
normal crop, the commercial produc-
tion will be short. However, there
will be considerable volume of fruit |
to market, and other parts of the state
will have more apples in comparison
with normal crop than will south
eastern Pennsylvania. Western Mary |
land is much like southeastern Penn |
sylvania-a short crop because of frost |
this spring. Some other parts of the |
state will have fair crop and taking |
the state as a whole the crop is much |
better than last year although it is by |
no means normal. New Jersey has a |
fair crop, much better than last year, |
although frost here also reduced the |
prospective yield.
Virginia will not have full crop of |
apples but the outlook now is better |
than might be expected from the re-
ports sent out Of the state Immediately |
following the freeze this spring. At |
that time, many growers believed the |
crop in Winchester county would be |
failure but it now develops that there |
will be perhaps a third of a crop or
more in this big section. The Pied
mont district also has quite good
many apples although below and in
southwestern Virginia frost caused a
heavy loss. West Virginia will have
fewer apples than Virginia in compari-
son with a normal crop, frost this
spring being the cause. Still great
many more apples will be shipped out
of West Virginia than last year which
was practically failure insofar as APP
pies are concerned.
Farther south, Georgia has good pros
in the northeastern corner of the state
produce most of the apples in Georgia
and will have a pretty good crop. Il
Many of the apples in this state are
grown in the western mountain dis
tricts and a fair crop is expected.
The above summary gives conditions
along the Atlantic coast in brief as far
as can be Judged at this writing. 1t |
is, of course, understood that the crop
is not made and conditions between
now and fall can either improve or get
worse. However, if the season is any
thing like normal, the Atlantic coast
states will show a heavy increase over
last year, even though the southern
states in this area will not produce a
normal crop.
Farther west, the Ohio Valley states
promise fair crop of apples. Some
damage was caused by frost in certain
sections of Ohio and nearby states but
the Ohio Valley has a considerable in
crease over last year and there is near
ly a normal yield promised in most of
these states. The southern Ohio Rome
Beauty district shows quite severe
losses from frost this spring but COM
pared with last year, when there was
a crop failure in this district, the yield
will be good. However, it is not full
a good half crop or
little better, when all varieties are
taken into consideration. Indiana has
a big increase over last year and llli-
nois has good big crop of apples, per-
haps three times as many as last sea-
son. A great many early apples are
grown in southern Illinois and there
are large orchards of winter apples in
the central part Of the state and in
western Illinois from which good crops
are expected. Southern Illinois also
grows winter fruit as well as early ap-
pies.
South Of the Ohio river there is a
fair crop in Tennessee and Kentucky.
Early apples are grown principally in
these states as a commercial PROPOSE
tion. The crop Of winter apples is
small from a commercial standpoint,
no particular attention being given the
crop as a general thing.
In the lower Mississippi River Val
ley states on the west side of the river
there is a fair to good apple crop, al
though perhaps not normal in all re- !
spects. IL will be remembered that
his territory had a complete failure
last year. Arkansas has a good many
apples this year but it is below the
average crop. Southern Missouri has
4 fair crop but Ben Davis are short.
This applies to Arkansas largely also
he shortage being in the Ben Davis
and Gano varieties. Northern Mis-
souri has a good crop in general Kan
ias has what Is considered a very good
apple crop but il is not a full crop.
Nphraeka has a GOOD cron As has Iowa III
asst year, a heavy yield in some dis
ricts being expected and in others
tightly below normal. All in all, the
Michigan apple crop is considered good.