The Commercial Apple Industry of North America

This huge volume was published in 1921.


From the book's Preface:

In collecting material for this work, the authors have
visited practically every important apple-growing county
in the United States; first in connection with a special
investigation of the cost of producing apples in important
regions, conducted by the Office of Farm Management,
United States Department of Agriculture ; and later as
Fruit Crop Specialists engaged in organizing a system
for estimating important fruit crops and particularly
the commercial apple crop of the United States. The au-
thors were impressed with a need of this kind of book, as the
many published works on the apple have not dealt system-
atically with the commercial phase of apple-growing which
only recently has become a well defined industry entirely
separate from the home orchard. The whole subject of
propagation has been omitted, as this is now well treated
in separate books. The apple is approached in this book
from the point of view of commerce.

Contents:
I. Importance and History of the Apple Industry

II. Leading Apple Regions of the United States

III. Commercial Apple Production in Canada, Australia and New Zealand

IV. Locality and Site for the Commercial Orchard

V. The Farm Management Phases of Apple Growing

VI. Establishing the Apple Orchard

VII. Cultivation of the Orchard

VIII. Irrigation

IX. Fertilizing the Commercial Apple Orchard

X. Diseases and Pests of the Apple and Their Control

XI. Fruit Setting and Pollination

XII. Pruning and Thinning

XIII. Renovation of Old Orchards

XIV. Handling the Crop

XV. Marketing and Storage

XVI. Yields

XVII. By- Products of the Apple Industry

XVIII. Cost of Production

XIX. Varieties of Apples