Massachusetts 

 Agricultural Experiment Station 



BULLETIN No. 228 MARCH, 1926 



AN ECONOMIC STUDY 



OF THE 



MASSACHUSETTS APPLE INDUSTRY 



By HUBERT W. YOUNT and LORIAN P. JEFFERSON 



According to the data reported in this bulletin, the task of marketing the 

 Massachusetts apple crop ten years from no>v may be nearly double what 

 it is today. Existing plantings, with no allowance for new plantings, indi- 

 cate an increase in the apple crop, in the next ten years, ranging from 240 

 per cent for Mcintosh down to 13 per cent for Wealthy. Were this increase 

 to come suddenly, or without preparation on the part of growers' organ- 

 izations, it might be impossible to market the crop to advantage. With 

 knowledge as to the probable size of coming crops, growers will have not 

 only a guide to new planting, but opportunity to develop new markets. It 

 was for the purpose of attaining this dual objective, that the work reported 

 in this bulletin was undertaken. 



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