The following table shows the monthly shipments of peaches 
1 carloads during the three years. 
MONTHLY SHIPMENTS OF PEACHES IN CARLOADS 
Average 3 years 1924, 1925 and 1926 
Ly Yose Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. 
Ga. .... 14,993 . 125 2,726 10,428 1,706 
Tex. +... 932 1 9 813 109 v4 
Okla. ... 156 2 3 17 134 “a 
Calif. .. 12,488 106 4,357 5,598 2,404 
8. C..... 259 i 17 126 116 nl 
N. C.... 1,946 3 73 758 Lill 1 
Ark. ... 2,538 Po 3 1,203 1,332 ve 
Tenn. .. 1,055 108 947 vi 
Md. .... 453 10 227 204 
Del. .... 502 3 370 129 
Va. +... 319 1 250 67 
W. Va. 227 .. 60 162 
‘Wash. .. 941 4 797 129 
TL sess 1,483 0 1,335 128 oe 
ind. ... 153 2 112 35 4 
Ohio “... 321 . 22 246 63 
Mich. .. 348 . 1 307 34 
Utah ... 659 2 326 328 we 
Jolo. ... 1,292 3 633 654 2 
Ne Je sue 1,218 591 580 8 
Pa, .... 493 62 416 10 
N. Y.... 2,953 13 2,206 1732 
Other .. 506 il 197 187 49 2 
U. S.... 46,235 . 136 3,011 18,106 16,045 8,062 883 2 
MONTHLY SHIPMENTS OF PEACHES 
BY STATE GROUPINGS 
Scale—Thousands of cars 
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Total annual average shipments amounted to 46,235 car- 
loads. Georgia supplied 14,993 cars, or 32.4 per cent; Cali- 
fornia, 12,488 cars, or 27 per cent, and New York State, 2,953 
cars, or 6.4 per cent. Arkansas, North Carolina, Tlinois, Colo- 
rado, New Jersey, and Tennessee all ship more than a thou- 
sand cars each, 
The importance of the Atlantic Seaboard states in ship- 
ments of peaches is clearly indicated. Average annual ship- 
ments from these states amounted to 23,371 carloads, or over 
50 per cent of the total for the United States. This may also 
be visualized by a study of the chart opposite. The Southern 
Atlantic states, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Caro- 
lina, furnished 17,198 cars; the Middle Atlantic states, con- 
sisting of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware (with which is 
included West Virginia), supplied 1,501 cars; the North At- 
lantic states, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York, con- 
tributed 4,664 cars. California peaches account for more than 
one-half of the shipments from the rest of the country. 
The shipping season begins in Georgia in May. Shipments 
increase rapidly to a peak in July and then drop rapidly, the 
season except for a few belated shipments closing in August. 
Shipments from California begin lightly the latter part of 
May, increase rapidly to July and more slowly to a peak in 
August, then subside rapidly and by the end of September 
practically cease. The season in Texas, Oklahoma and Ar- 
kansas and the Carolinas practically begins in June and ends 
in August. The other states begin shipping in July or August, 
the more northerly states beginning in the latter month, 
For the United States as a whole, the shipping season ex- 
tends over a period of six months, from May to October. The 
peak movement is in July, although nearly as many cars are 
shipped in August. During these two months 34,151 cars 
moved or nearly three-fourths of the annual total. All of the 
states make shipments in August and nearly all in July. 
The heavy movement in July is due principally to large ship- 
ments from Georgia, California, Arkansas and Texas; that in 
August, to large shipments from California, Georgia, Illinois, 
Arkansas, North Carolina and Tennessee; while in September, 
ih Js due chiefly to large shipments from California and New 
ork. 
Although the foregoing statements relate to the shipments 
of peaches in the fresh state only, the importance of the can- 
ning industry and the dried peach industry should not be dis- 
regarded. According to the United States Department of 
Commerce, canned peaches in 1925 amounted to 9,899,000 
cases, and dried peaches to 86,857,000 pounds. 
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