EXPLANATORY NOTES ON "MCINTOSH STORAGE LINE" 



An appraisal of a market price oan be made by comparing actual crop movement 

 to a desired crop movement, A suitable standard of crop movement is therefore 

 desirable as a tool for measuring current crop movement. 



The chart on the other side illustrates a "MCINTOSH STORAGE LINE" which may be 

 used as a base to measure current out-of-storage movement of Mcintosh apples. 



The chart also carries four dotted lines indicating the out-of-storage raove- 

 jnent of Mcintosh from the BOSTON AREA cold storages in the years of 1948, 1947, 

 1946 and 1944. The record of the short crop of 1945 is valueless for this i^rpose 

 and is therefore not included. 



The tables below give the figures used in making the chart. 



You may plot the out-of-storage movement of Molntosh for 1949-50 on this chart 

 from figures released by the MDA Special Apple Market Report, All percentages are 

 based on the October 15th storage holdings. 



You may also plot your own out-of-storage movement of Mcintosh by basing your 

 percentages on Mcintosh in storage on October 15, 1949, 



The "MCINTOSH STORAGE LIKE" is not presented as an ideal out-of-storage 

 movenent although there is considerable support for such a statement. Also this 

 indicated out-of-storage movement stands up profitably when applied to the last 14 

 years where comparable storage figures are available. 



The "MCINTOSH STORAGE LINE" furnishes a means of measuring the out-of-storage 

 movernent of Mcintosh, It starts and is based upon the maximam amount in storage. 

 It stops when most agree that the Mcintosh should be all sold. It ftimishes a guide 

 to an orderly movement of the crop with the most rapid movements in periods when the 

 most sales outlets are available and when people seem to want apples the most. 



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Issued by the Extension Service, Willard A. Munson, director, in furtherance of 

 Acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914. University of Massachusetts, United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture and County Extension Services Cooperating. 



