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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE 



Apple Shipments, 1911 



Reports of apple shipments originat- 

 ing on about one-half of the railroad mile- 

 age of the United States from June 1 to 

 December 31, 1911, aggregated 19,000,000 

 bushels. This total is composed of ship- 

 ments on roads for which mileage is re- 

 ported by the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission. A few intrastate railroads and 

 some steamboat lines reported an addi- 

 tional total of 744,838 bushels, but it is 

 not known what fraction of the entire 

 traffic of such roads and boat lines this 

 figure represents. Of the interstate rail- 

 roads, reports were received from those 

 operating a total of 127,751 miles, or 52.3 

 per cent of the entire mileage operated 

 in the United States on June 30, 1909. 

 To avoid duplication each road was re- 

 quested to report only shipments originat- 

 ing on its own lines. 



This, the first of a series of annual re- 

 ports on this subject, has the disadvan- 



tage of not having similar returns for an 

 earlier year for comparison. The returns 

 for the second year, 1912. will naturally 

 be more useful. 



The figures given below contain some 

 duplication, due to apples which were 

 shipped to storehouses and afterwards 

 reshipped. The shipments as reported do 

 not include those made from producing 

 points after December 31, 1911, except 

 for a few railroads. Among the railroads 

 failing to report are a few of the more im- 

 portant ones in New York. For other 

 parts of the United States it is not known 

 whether the roads not reporting had gen- 

 erally more or less traffic in apples than 

 the roads that did report. If it is as- 

 sumed that for the entire country, includ- 

 ing New York, the traffic was in propor- 

 tion to the mileage, the total apples origi- 

 nating on interstate railroads in the 

 United States from June 1 to December 

 31, 1911, would be over 37,000,000 bushels. 



Apples Shipped from Points on Interstate Railroads in the United States, 

 June 1 to December 31, 1911 



(Original shipments only ; excluding receipts from other carriers. Excluding, in the case of many 

 roads, shipments in less than carload lots.) 



(1) Group I comprises the railroads of the New England States; Group II. New York (east of 

 Buffalo), Pennsylvania (east of Pittsburgh), New Jersey. Delaware. Maryland, and northern part 

 of West Virginia: Group III. New York (west of Buffalo). Pennsylvania (west of Pittsburgh). 

 Ohio, Indiana, and the southern peninsula of Michigan ; Group IV. Virginia. Central and Southern 

 West Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina ; Group V. Kentucky. Tennessee. Georgia. 

 Florida. Alabama. Mississippi, and Louisiana (east of the Mississippi river) : Group VI. northern 

 peninsula of Michigan, Wisconsin. Illinois. Minnesota, Iowa. Missouri (north of the Missouri 

 river). North Dakota (east of the Missouri river), and South Dakota (east of the Missouri 

 river) : Group VII. North Dakota (west of the Missouri river). South Dakota (west of the 

 Missouri river), Nebraska. Montana. Wyoming and Northern Colorado; Group VIII. Missouri 

 (south of Missouri river). Arkansas. Kansas. Oklahoma. Central and Southern Culorado. North- 

 eastern New Mexico, and the "panhandle" cf Texas; Group IX. Texas (except the "panhandle") 

 and Southeastern New Mexico ; Group X. Idaho, Utah. Nevada. Western New Mexico. .Arizona. 

 Oregon. Washington, and California. 



("1 Figures in this column are based upon the two preceding columns and are subject to 

 more or less error, depending upon how well the apple tralEc of reporting railroads represents 

 proportionally that of the non-reporting railroads. 



(3) Obtained by addition. 



