14 The Commercial Apple Industry 



8. Increase in the use of by-products. 



One of the most favorable factors in the outlook of 

 apple production is the increasing importance and use of 

 apple by-products. It is only in recent years that the 

 canned apple industry assumed great importance. Dried 

 apples are more in demand than before. With the advent 

 of prohibition, the demand for apple juice products is 

 increasing greatly. Jellies, apple-butter and similar prod- 

 ucts are being manufactured in increasing quantities. 

 The apples required in the manufacture of these by- 

 products will remove from the market much of the low- 

 grade fruit. Enormous by-product plants have been built 

 in the heart of the Shenandoah-Cumberland region of the 

 Middle Atlantic states, in western New York, in the Ya- 

 kima and Wenatchee valleys of Washington and in fact in 

 all important apple regions. Numerous breweries and dis- 

 tilleries have been converted into plants for the production 

 of apple by-products. 



9. Future production. 



It is important to note, in connection with possible 

 future production, that there has been little concerted ap- 

 ple planting in any part of the United States since 1910. 

 This lack of planting can not fail to have effect on the 

 production of the next two decades. In speculating on 

 future production, one instinctively turns to New York 

 State, which until very recently was credited with one- 

 fourth of the normal commercial apple production of the 

 United States. In the Hudson Valley are many new or- 

 chards which will increase materially the production from 

 this region. However, in western New York, which is 



