Je BULLETIN 1415, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Washington bearing trees have increased from one-fourth the number 
in either of these States in 1890 to two and one-half times as many in 
1920. Idaho and Colorado have had a remarkable, though lesser, 
development. In all of these five States apple production has become 
a specialized and intensive industry. For the census year 1919 they 
had a total of less than one-sixth of the bearing apple trees of the 
country, yet produced nearly one-third of all our apples. 
Whatever sustained increase has occurred in total production of 
apples during the past 30 years must be credited to the box region. 
Total production compared in Figure 1 by six-year periods from 
1894 to 1923 shows heavy increases in the box region in each suc- 
cessive group of years and production for the last six years was 
nearly seven times that of the first period. Meanwhile total produc- 
tion in the barrel region had shown an irregular general tendency 
to decrease notwithstanding occasional very heavy crops. 
APPLES: TOTAL PRODUCTION, BY REGIONS, AVERAGE OF SIX-YEAR 
PERIODS 1894-1899 TO 1918-1923 
MILLIONS OF BUSHELS 
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Fic. 1.—Production of western boxed apples has inereased greatly. The average of 1918 to 
1923 is 40,000,000 bushels over that of the first six-year period 
COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION 
The boxed-apple region produced for commercial purposes nearly 
three-fourths as much as the barreled-apple region from 1918 to 1923. 
The commercial box crop ranged from 21 to nearly 50 million bushels 
in the six years and averaged 36 million, compared with 51 million 
in the barrel region. It exceeded the commercial barrel crop in 
1921 and approached fairly close to it in 1919 and again in 1923. 
Washington surpassed New York in 1919 and again in 1921, 1922, 
and 1923, and has averaged more than half the boxed-apple pro- 
duction and about one-fourth of the combined boxed and barreled 
production. California’s production has been remarkably regular 
with gradual increase. Its six-year average exceeded that of Oregon, 
and Idaho exceeded Colorado in average production. Utah and 
New Mexico are close contestants in sixth and seventh places. 
