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It Number Decline
Of Apple Trees
A Healthy Sign?
B> W. H. Lyse, County Agent
As this issue of Rappahannock News goes to press I will have been here for four and one half 7: years. Long before I came I’d heard of Rappahannock’s . apple industry and I’m still hearing: “The farmers of Rappahannock who have made money and been successful are those who produce apples commercially.”
Our most recent census (1945) shows fruit production to bring in . morfr cash income than any other commodity yet with this reputation and fact. Where are you today. and where are you heading when it comes to apple production? The . commercial orchard survey con- r ducted by Henry M. Taylor, state statistician of the Department of Agriculture, gives a pretty clearcut picture.
In the test 12 years, Rappahannock’s apple tree population hasi decreased 25%.
In writing about iwhat might happen in .the next 60 years, I consider what has happened- in. the past 20 years and here is what I found: .:<*
Apple tree numbers have been
46.5%