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Show MANY APPLE TREES IN UNITED STATES. t . ansas, 1,613,035 ; Washington county, Arkansas, 1,555,140; Niagara county, New York, 929, 0S6; Wayne county, New York, 796,010; Marion county, Illinois, 795, 1SS; Monroe county, New York, 7S9.409; Clay county, Illinois, 751,727; Erie county, New York, 031,-2S3; 031,-2S3; Orleans county, New York, G29,-401; G29,-401; Wayne county, Illinois, 604,214. The statistics show that in the great Ben Davis winesap section of the country there are to-day nearly twice as many trees as in the famous Baldwin Bald-win Northern Spy region. The toial number cf apple trees of bearing ago in the commercial orchard or-chard areas of the United States up to June 1, 1900, according to the twelfth census, is 210.000,000, an increase of 75,000,000, or more than 40 per cent, over the apple area of 1S90. This commercial area of 1900 yielded in 1S99 somewhat more than 175,000,000 bushels. By districts the North Atlantic At-lantic apple section has 29,500.000 trees, the South Atlantic 25,500,000, the north central 92,OOQ,0u0, the south central 31 .000,000 and the w-estern district, dis-trict, including the Rocky Mountain states and the Pacific slope, 13,000,-000. 13,000,-000. Out of the total number of trees in the country, the north and south central districts possess 123,205,000, or nearly three-fifths. These are divided di-vided among the leading states as follows: fol-lows: Missouri, 20,000,000; New Y-ork, 15,000,000; Illinois, 13,500,000; Kansas and Pennsylvania a little less than 12,000.000 each. Seven, states have more than 10,000,000 trees each. In order they are Missouri, New Y'ork, Illinois, Ohio, Kansas, Pennsylvania and Michigan. As indicative of the relative density of planting there are thirty-five counties coun-ties in the United States which have more than 400,000 trees each. They ire as follows: Benton county, Ark- i |