The Commercial Apple Industry of North America

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: apples are grown here for the fancy trade demand and such varieties usually bring good returns, due to the proximity to market. The average annual yields are less than in western New York, due largely to soil conditions. The future of the Hudson Valley fruit industry seems assured on account of its proximity to market. NEW ENGLAND BALDWIN BELT The intensive apple sections of Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts are included in what is known as the New England Baldwin Belt, so called on account of the prominence of the Baldwin variety. Beginning in southern Maine, this region extends through southern New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and into Connecticut, including both the intensive and more scattered and outlying apple plantings in this territory. In Maine the leading apple counties are Oxford, Kennebec, Fr