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data available in the office North Jay was the heaviest shipping 

 point with 12,465 barrels. West Paris was second with 11,300, 

 Union, third, with 8,700, Wilton, fourth, with 8,003, a"<^ Nor- 

 way, fifth, with 6,925. South Paris, Winthrop and some of the 

 other shipping points which usually have an output of 20,000 

 barrels all fell below the 6,000 barrel mark. Outside of Maine 

 the production was unusually heavy for this season. The 

 Federal Government has made an estimate of 70,000,000 bar- 

 rels, although this is greatly in excess of the figures of other 

 compilers. Conservative estimates place the 1914 crop between 

 50,000,000 and 60,000,000 barrels. The fact that western New 

 York had a large crop of fruit had a tendency to depress the 

 eastern markets early so that prices have been inferior thus far. 

 The western box holdings at the end of the present season, as es- 

 timated by the Northwest Fruit Distributors, are approximately 

 3,000,000 boxes ; as estimated by the New York dealers, from 

 5,000,000 to 7,000,000 boxes. This shows plainly that it will 

 take a very active market to handle the remainder of the apple 

 crop advantageously to the producers. 



The following data were collected from the various trans- 

 portation companies : 



BARRELS OF APPLES SHIPPED AUG., I913-AUG., I9I4. 



tMaine Central Railroad 248,850 



Grand Trunk 70,979 



Eastern Steamship Corporation 27,850 



*Bangor & Aroostook Railroad Company 13467 



*Georges Valley Railroad 8,600 



Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad 4430 



Bridgton & Saco River Railroad 3, 100 



*Bangor Railway & Electric Company 2,939 



*Kennebec Central Railroad Company 17 



Boston & Maine 20,608 



York Harbor & Beach R. R 651 



401,491 



*Transf erred to another road 25,023 



tMaine Central R. R. transfer to Grand Trunk 35,488 60,511 



Actual total shipments 340,980 



