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CHART 12. Methods of Sale Used by Growers, 1924. 

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6 per cent are suninier varieties, 24 per cent, fall; and 70 per cent winter 

 varieties. Of apples sold to retail distriijutors, 5 per cent are summer, 21 per 

 cent are fall, and 73 per cent winter varieties. Winter apples comprise 80 

 per cent of wholesalers' purchases; less than 3 per cent are summer apples, 

 and 16 per cent are fall varieties. Sales on commission are made up of 54. 

 per cent winter apples, 38 per cent fall varieties and 8 per cent summer 

 varieties. 



Of 1,200,000 bushels on which the methods of sale were reported, 69,000 

 were summer apples, 326,000 were fall, and 797,000 winter varieties. Table 

 XIV (appendix) shows that there is considerable difference in the methods of 

 selling early and late varieties. Large growers produce most of the summer 

 and fall apples, which are more perishable than the later varieties and must 

 therefore be marketed as quickly as possible. Over 60 per cent of these apples 

 are shipped to the wholesale markets, nearly half of them to commission men. 



Country buyers purchase a smaller percentage of early apples than of tiie 

 late varieties, because they prefer a storable apple of comparatively low 

 grade. Most of the sales to country buyers are Baldwin. A larger propor- 

 tion of early than of late apples is sold at roadside stands, automobile traffic 

 beinff heaviest in the late summer and early fall. 



