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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Washington, D. C. June, 1926 
MARKETING WESTERN BOXED APPLES * 
By Grorce B. Fiske, Investigator in Marketing Fruits and Vegetables and Ray- 
MOND R. PaittHorRP, Marketing Specialist, Bureau of Agricultural Economics 
CONTENTS 
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Stonyion thesboxed apples ee 1 | Leading boxed apple markets________________ 33 
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The western boxed apple region____________- 3i|elVlarket preferences: 2-2 2 sono ee ce 53 
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IMS PECEO Nim et eee ee See ows 14> Costiof marketinge 22. Se eae 60 
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SellingsameéthodsS= Sse see a 16 | Market supply increasing ____.___-_________ 64 
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Distribution of boxed apples________________-_ 29 | Recent Federal publications on the market- 
Sales in city markets_______- ae SS oa 30 ing, transportation, and storage of boxed 
Boxed apples at auction____...-.-----_------ 32 apples! =< -2220_ 3_.. . Sao = 94 
STORY OF THE BOXED APPLE 
The commercial prominence of the boxed apple dates back only 
about 20 years, although apple production began early in the develop- 
ment of the Northwest. Apple trees were bearing fruit at the 
Hudson Bay Co.’s post near Vancouver, Wash., as early as 1834. 
Apparently some trees were planted in Oregon, particularly in_ the 
Willamette Valley, within the next 10 years, and with the Cali- 
ornia gold rush of 1849 a rich market came into existence. 
Oregon apples sold in 1849 for $10 a bushel and 6,000 bushels sold in 
1855 at $20 to $30. In fact, during the early years of the gold craze 
the price more than once went to $60 or $70 per bushel. 
In California the initial attempts at apple production were less 
successful than in Oregon, but early in the nineties California had 
the larger apple production of the two States and slightly the greater 
number of trees, and claimed the largest individual orchard in the 
country. 
Since then California and Oregon have remained about eu in 
number of bearing trees and in bushels of apples produced, while in 
1 The Divisions of Statistical and Historical Research, Agricultural Cooperation, and Cost of Marketing 
all of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, have contributed material for this bulletin. 
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