SPRAYING TO CONTROL ENEMIES OF CITRUS TREES. 5 
By 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 |Second| Third | Fourth} Fifth | First | Second | Third | Fourth] Fifth 
grade. | grade. | grade. | grade. | grade. | grade. | grade. | grade. | grade. | grade. 
SS Oe ee 
: 0 
December. ..--.-.--- 13.93 | 43.79 |} 40.18 1.87 25 | 20.02 | 33.68] 39.55 6.73 0 
MU AT VA ee yea) 12.26 | 38.30 | 40.89 7.58 95 9.44) 46.72 | 35.31 7 0 
IND HORA A See Beseee 2.60 | 32.28 | 47.07] 14.66 2.38 2.58 | 21.46 | 48.90 | 18.77 8.3 
(Mee ie rete 25.89 | 52.64] 17.39 3.81 7 6 3 5. 65 
JNjOVEU Sos eS ena es 1.16 | 20.91 | 50.80] 25.51 1.60 0 17.0 58.57 | 20.36 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 “plaim,” 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 34.438, 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 due 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. 
