SPRAYIXG TO COXTROL EXEMIES OF CITRUS TREES. 5 



B}'' the first method the records of fruit sold on four days of each 

 month in New York City were taken into consideration. Usually 

 the days selected were the 3d, 10th, 20th, and 28th or 30th of each 

 month, but other days might have been chosen just as well. The per- 

 centages of the various grades of fruit shipped, based upon the rec- 

 ords for these representative days, are given in Table 1. 



Table 1. — Percentages of various grades of oranges and grapefruit shipped 

 from Florida to New York City during the season of 1915-16. 





Oranges. 



Grapefruit. 



Month. 



First 

 grade. 



Second 

 grade. 



Third 

 grade. 



Fourth 

 grade. 



Fifth 

 grade. 



First 

 grade. 



Second 

 grade. 



Third 

 grade. 



Fourth 

 grade. 



Fifth 

 grade. 





8.17 

 13.93 

 12.26 



2.60 

 .25 



1.16 



48.55 

 43.79 

 38.30 

 32.28 

 25. 89 

 20.91 



37.14 

 40.18 

 40. S9 

 47.07 

 52.64 

 50.80 



5.63 

 1.87 

 7.58 

 14.66 

 17.39 

 25.51 



0.5 

 .25 

 .95 

 2.38 

 3.81 

 1.60 



13.85 

 20.02 

 9.44 

 2.58 

 .6 

 .0 



55.6 



33.68 

 46.72 

 21.46 

 9.7 

 17.0 



26.61 



39.55 



35. 31 



48.90 



50.6 



58.57 



4.43 



6.73 



8.7 



18.77 



33.4 



20.36 



0.0 





.0 





.0 





8.3 









4.33 







Entire season. 



6.68 



34.82 



45.07 



11.80 



1.62 



6.92 



29.86 



44.74 



15.24 



3.25 



The data in Table 1 are based upon the sale of 128,487 boxes of 

 oranges and 31,479 boxes of grapefruit. In the second method for 

 determining the percentage of fruit shipped to New York City in 

 the various grades, the fruit was placed in only three grades instead 

 of five. The fruit was classified by the same method used for Table 

 1, except that fruit marked " fancy " and " No. 1 " was placed in the 

 first grade, and all "plain," fourth and fifth grade fruit was left 

 out. The results, based upon a study of the auction sales, including 

 400,806 boxes of oranges and 126,193 boxes of grapefruit, showed 

 that the percentages of fruit in the three grades were 35.56, 44.33, 

 and 20.10 for oranges, and 34.43, 45.61, and 20 for grapefruit. 



These data and those of Table 1 show that the two methods for 

 determining the grades shipped give about the same results.- The 

 better grades are shipped during November and December; the 

 poorer grades, toward the close of the season. To a considerable 

 extent this clue to the demand of the holiday trade, which calls for 

 the best fruit obtainable. This demand causes such a keen competi- 

 tion among packers that it is difficult for any but the better grades 

 to find a market until after Christmas. 



Since the fruit sold in New York City grades much higher than 

 that sold in other markets, and, in fact, better than the average fruit 

 of the State, the percentages of the different grades of fruit of this 

 market and those of other markets must be compared, in order to 

 arrive at a just conclusion as to the amount of fruit in the different 

 grades shipped from the entire State. Such a comparison of grades 

 sold in New York City and other markets, including Baltimore, 

 Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis, 

 is made in Table 2. 



