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Accurate figures could not be obtained from the Hudson River Valley 

 and Long Island shipping points as so much of the fruit is shipped by 

 water, but, basing the yield in 191 5 on the census reports of 1909 as to 

 yields and number of trees as compared with similar data for these years 

 from western New York, a rough approximation of the number of car- 

 loads in eastern New York is 600. From reports received from the chief 

 Hudson River navigation lines it would seem that they probably carried 

 about one hundred carloads. 



Practically all of the 600 carloads grown in eastern New York were 



consigned to New York City or nearby towns. From the above table 



we may assume that about 5000 carloads were produced in the rest of the 



State and we are fortunate in having a record as to where 4419 of these 



were consigned. The New York Central Railroad distributed the number 



of carloads named as follows: ^ 



No. 



Destination Towns 



Buffalo and points west, including Pittsburgh 96 



Pennsylvania and points south of Newberry Junction. 72 



Points east of Albany 25 



Points north of New York City 145 



New York City i 



339 



Analyzing these figures we find that the 4,419 carloads reached 339 

 destinations grouped as follows: ^ 



9 cities took 2,378 cars, over one-half of the crop, 



21 cities took 3,018 cars, two-thirds of the crop, 



59 cities took from 4 to 10 cars each, 

 231 cities took from i to 3 cars each, 

 62 per cent of the crop went outside of the State, , 

 22.3 per cent went to points in New York north of New York City, 

 15.7 per cent went to New York City 



The nine cities which took over one-half of the crop are: 



New York 677 Cars Cincinnati 116 Cars 



Pittsburgh . . '. SSS " Syracuse 109 " 



Philadelphia 418 " Columbus 109 " 



Cleveland 156 " Detroit 103 " 



Boston 13s 



Total 2 ,378 Cars 



1 Welsh, P. S. and Anderson, E. H. The Marketing of New York State Peaches 5. 1916. 



2 Ibid. 6-7. 1916. 



