T4 ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE 
Apple Shipments, 1911 
Reports of apple shipments originat- 
ing on about one-half of the railroad mile- 
age of the United States from June 1 to 
December 31, 1911, aggregated 19,000,000 
bushels. This total is composed of ship- 
ments on roads for which mileage is re- 
ported by the Interstate Commerce Com- 
mission. A few intrastate railroads and 
some steamboat lines reported an addi- 
tional total of 744,838 bushels, but it is 
not known what fraction of the entire 
traffic of such roads and boat lines this 
figure represents. Of the interstate rail- 
roads, reports were received from those 
operating a total of 127,751 miles, or 52.3 
per cent of the entire mileage operated 
in the United States on June 30, 1909. 
To avoid duplication each road was re- 
quested to report only shipments originat- 
ing on its own lines. 
This, the first of a series of annual re- 
ports on this subject, has the disadvan- 
tage of not having similar returns for an 
earlier year for comparison. The returns 
for the second year, 1912, will natmally 
be more useful. 
The figures given below contain some 
duplication, due to apples which were 
shipped to storehouses and afterwards 
reshipped. The shipments as reported do 
not include those made from producing 
points after December 31, 1911, except 
for a few railroads. Among the railroads 
failing to report are a few of the more im- 
portant ones in New York. For other 
parts of the United States it is not known 
whether the roads not reporting had gen- 
erally more or less traffic in apples than 
the roads that did report. If it is as- 
sumed that for the entire country, includ- 
ing New York, the traffic was in propor- 
tion to the mileage, the total apples origi- 
nating on interstate railroads in the 
United States from June 1 to December 
31, 1911, would be over 37,000,000 bushels. 
Apples Shipped from Points on Interstate Railroads in the United States, 
June 1 to December 31, 1911 
(Original shipments only; excluding receipts from other carriers. 
Excluding, in the case of many 
roads, shipments in less than carload lots.) 
| Miles operated by railroads, 
June 30, 1909 
Group! 
Total 
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22,659 
Ce ee) 
-| 244,084 
Apples originating on 
railroads 
Reporting as to apples 
Total, as 
; As reported | computed 
Miles Per cent on basis of 
of total mileage? 
Bushels Bushels 
4,569 56 0 1,917,931 3,424,877 
9,743 39 8 3,294,601 8,277 ,892 
12,557 47 . 4 2,431,813 5,130,407 
9,391 62,2 1,346,889 2,165,336 
15,788 53 9 119,261 221,263 
26,541 50.8 2,933,812 5,775,220 
8,017 61.7 284,037 460,352 
22,447 66 1 2,628,969 | 3,977,260 
6,264 33.5 30,415 90,791 
12,434 54 9 4,112,573 | 7,491,026 
127,751 52 3 19,100,251 337 014,424 
(1) Group I comprises the railroads of the New England States; Group II, New York (east of 
Buffalo), Pennsylvania (east of Pittsburgh), New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and northern part 
of West Virginia; Group III, New York (west of Buffalo), Pennsylvania (west of Pittsburgh), 
Ohio, Indiana, and the southern peninsula of Michigan; Group IV, Virginia, Central and Southern 
West Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina; Group V; Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, 
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana (east of the Mississippi river) ; Group VI, northern 
peninsula of Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri (north of the Missouri 
river), North Dakota (east of the Missouri river), and South Dakota (east of the Missouri 
river); Group VII, North Dakota (west of the Missouri river), South Dakota (west of the 
Missouri river), Nebraska, Montana, Wyoming and Northern Colorado; Group VIII, Missouri 
(south of Missouri river), Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Central and Southern Colorado, North- 
eastern New Mexico, and the “panhandle” of Texas; Group IX, Texas (except the “panhandle”) 
and Southeastern New Mexico; Group X, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Western New Mexico, Arizona, 
Oregon, Washington, and California. 
(2) Figures in this column are based upon the two preceding columns and are subject to 
more or less error, depending upen how well the apple traffic of reporting railroads represents 
proportionally that of the non-reporting railroads. 
(3) Obtained by addition. 
