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TABLE 22 



Autumn Prices by Varieties When Wealthy Prices Equal 100 * 



Average of Weekly Price Quotations 



Variety 











1910 to 



1918 to 



1927 to 





1917 



192G 



1934 





Percent 



Percent 



Percent 



Wealthy 



100 



100 



100 



Alexander 



106 



94 



95 



Astrachan 



79 



82 



82 



Baldwin 



76 



84 



103 



Ben Davis 



78 



72 



86 



Cortland 







102 1 



Delicious 





118 



110 





94 



94 



112 



Fameuse (Snow) 



97 



96 



104 



Gravenstein 



95 



90 



96 



Grimes 



75 



76 



94 



Hubbardston 



79 



83 



94 



Jonathan 



116 



106 



106 



Maiden Blush 



85 



86 



93 



Mcintosh 



115 



134 



132 



Northwestern Greening 



115 



107 



105 



Duchess (Oldenburg) 



93 



85 



85 



R. 1. Greening 



89 



98 



113 



Tompkins King 



93 



97 



100 



Twenty Ounce 



90 



95 



115 



Wolf River 



105 



96 



99 



* For August, September, and October, price relatives were calculated from quota- 

 tions in the Saturday edition of the Producer's Price-Current^ New York City. Each 

 quotation in bushel baskets for each grade for each variety was compared with the 

 Wealthy quotation for the same grade, 



t Prices for 1932 only. 



the New York market compared to Baldwin as a standard for 

 56 years, and on fall prices of 20 varieties with Wealthy at 

 100 for 25 years. They are worthy of study as indicating 



