By-Products of the Apple Industry 349 



always been the center of the dried apple industry. 

 Many parts of the country are now taking up the dried 

 apple business and a large proportion of the total apple 

 production is being dried. In California, the Northwest, 

 New York, the Virginias and in Arkansas, the industry- 

 is on a large commercial scale. The mountainous parts 

 of the southern states, particularly North Carolina, pro- 

 duce several hundred thousand pounds of dried apples 

 annually. In these states, they are sun-dried on the 

 small mountain farms, the apples being grown almost 

 wholly in old uncared for orchards. The Buckingham 

 apple has long been a favorite in Carolina for drying pur- 

 poses. Several varieties are used for drying in California 

 but the Yellow Bellflower leads all others. New York 

 dries the Baldwin and Rhode Island Greening. 



Nearly all driers of the West are commercial, while in 

 the East the small home driers have long been adhered 

 to. Western New York has several large commercial 

 driers but the great bulk of the Wayne County dried apple 

 production comes from the home driers of which this 

 county contains hundreds. 



The by-products industry promises to put apple-growing 

 on a more staple and less speculative basis. Formerly, 

 the grower depended almost wholly on the price a barrel or 

 box of commercial fruit. At present if this price does 

 not warrant putting the apples up in packages or contain- 

 ers, they may be disposed of at by-product plants at a 

 profit. Prohibition has been the important factor de- 

 termining the 1919 increase in by-product uses and prices. 

 At the present time, about 20 per cent of the apple crop 

 of the United States goes to the by-product 'plant or is 

 made into cider. In California, almost 50 per cent of the 



