-3- 



Tlhile it may sound disloyal for an old Yankee to say it, 

 the place for an apple man to live this year is in the Pacific Northwest. 

 Out there they have a real crop. They have had some av/ful tough times dur- 

 ing the depression, but in the past few years they have come back strong 

 and this year's nice crop, benefitting from higher prices as a result of the 

 eastern shortage, should make apple selling a nice proposition for western 

 grov/ers. 



To sum it up, the estimates as compiled in August shov; a 

 United States crop of 68,882,000 bushels, compared with 124,754,000 last year 

 and 119,046,000 for the ten-year average. 



In viexv of the short crop^ some comment here on the apple 

 ceilings seems quite appropriate. The "disaster" adjustment to the ceiling 

 prices, which is effective through September 30, makes the price in the east- 

 ern states $3.85 per bushel f.o.b, to growers, and $3.95 to growers' sales 

 agents and to growers who qualify as shipping point distributors (which many 

 in New England do). This ceiling applies to all the East and to some Western 

 States, but does not apply to the Pacific Northwest. In California, Washing- 

 ton, Oregon, Montana, and Idaho, the ceiling is $3.19 to growers, ^3.29 to 

 growers* sales agents, and shipping point distributors. 



The mark-ups as scheduled at present are the same as last year. 

 For sales in the market there is a mark-up of 40 cents where sales are on 

 commission (and 30 cents if the shipment is from a shipping point distributor 

 or grwrers' sal^s agent). P''or apples which are owned by the seller in the 

 market the mark-up is 45 cents. For apples delivered to retail stores the 

 mark-up is 70 cents. In all of these cases the cost of transportation may be 

 added. 



The $3.85 figure applies on standard containers, \uhich in- 

 cludes the eastern apple crate and the Massachusetts standard box. Yj'here 

 apples are sold in non-standard containers, the f.o.b, price is 8.56 cents 

 per pound for graded and packed fruit, 



— Walter E. Piper 

 Massachusetts Division of Markets 



DICIILORO - DIPHBNYL - TRICIILORETHAIJE 



The end of the Japanese Y/ar and increased production facili- 

 ties undoubtedly mean that DDT v;ill be available to civilians in larger quan- 

 tities in 1946, and Massachusetts fruit growers are already wondering hoiv to 

 use it in their orchard insect control schedule. 



Although about 25 years of normal experimentation have been 

 croweded into the last three years, there are many things about DDT which 

 are not yet known. Furthermore, the extremely unusual grov/ing season in 1945 

 will cast a reasonable doubt on the results of this year and v;e wonder if 

 they can be repeated in a more normal season. 



