THE MARKET FOR MASSACHUSETTS APPLES 



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Table 10. — Apple Production in the Chief Producing 

 Countries, 1921-1924 (barrels) 



a. Production as reported is for the calendar year in the Northern Hemisphere and 

 the succeeding harvest in the Southern Hemisphere. 



b. Pears and apples for table use included. 



The United States grows about 73 per cent of the world crop reported 

 and our commercial crop amounts to about 30 per cent of this known 

 volume. Canada is the next largest producer, with a commercial crop 

 averaging 3,750,000 barrels for the period under discussion. Czecho- 

 slovakia produced an average of 3,500,000 barrels during the period, the 

 largest volume for any European country reporting. France grows a 

 crop of considerable size, but the figures given in this table include not 

 only those apples for table use, but pears as well. 



Although apples are grown more generally than any other fruit, being 

 cultivated to some extent in most parts of the world, many countries do 

 not produce enough to meet their own demand and a world-wide apple 

 trade has developed. A partial summary of this international trade is pre- 

 sented in the following tables, 11 and 12, which list the chief countries im- 

 porting and exporting apples. The figures, which were compiled by the 

 agents of the United States Department of Agriculture, show that m.ost of 

 the exporting countries also import apples to some extent. 



The total volume of imports reported exceeds the total volume of 

 exports, indicating that there are sources of considerable exports other 

 tlian those listed. 



International Trade 



International trade in apples, which amounted to about 7,000,000 bar- 

 rels annually from 1909 to 1913, has not yet quite reached this pre-war 



