A USDA map with dots placed according to county census.
Wow, WA in 18th place.
Look at spunky little Rhode Island refusing to bring up the rear…lol
Heh…As a child growing up on Seymour Johnson AFB; the park next to the school had large mulberry trees. Big long fat black ones. If the kids were not munching on them; they were busy coloring each other with them. They tasted…Good…but fleeting???
If you look at that shadow on Montana’s south western side right next to the low end of the Idaho Panhandle you’ll see the Bitterroot Valley (Hamilton, Corvallis, Stevensville) which was producing Macs like crazy in that time frame. From there they came to Missoula and then to Butte as well as to points east via the highline.
it would be interesting to see before and after prohibition. A lot of apple production went into hard cider.
…WA jumps to #11 for estimate 1915 column