THE MARKET FOR MASSACHUSETTS APPLES 



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Oermany 



Germany was, prior to the World War, a large importer of apples, 

 but only during the past two or three seasons is she receiving again large 

 shipments from the United States. Importations of apples by the United 

 Kingdom and by Germany are presented in Table 16. Owing to geograph- 

 ical changes following the World War, the figures for German importations 

 are not exactly comparable to the pre-war figures. British importations 

 of apples from the United States have more than doubled the pre-war 

 a\erage, while the volume sent to Germany has not yet returned to that 

 of the decade prior to the war. 



Table 16. — British and German Imports of Apples (barrels) 



a. Germany imported very few apples from 1920-1924. 



France 



The demand for American apples in France has been very small. 

 French markets demand better grades of apples than do British markets. 

 Since most receipts of American apples in France have been reshipments 

 from London or Liverpool, the French have not found them equal in size 

 or quality to their own table apples, iience they have not been popular. 



During the season of 1925-26, however, after French apples had 

 become scarce and expensive, Northwestern boxed apples of good size were 

 offered on the Paris markets after careful advertising. Certain chain 

 stores handled them at a reasonable price. This tended to control to 

 some extent the retail price in other stores and the price asked for good 

 American fruit was lower than that of the remaining French apples which 

 ■were withered and over-ripe. This served to extend the consumption and 

 introduce American apples to the French public. 



