MARKETING WESTERN BOXED APPLES 3 
One of the important features, from a marketing standpoint, is 
that the production in the box region has been heavier on the odd 
years, while the crop in the barrel region has been heavier in years 
of even date (fig. 2). Otherwise competition would have been even 
more severe. 
Comparison of shipments over a 10-year period is impressive. 
In 1913 the car-lot movement, June to November, was equivalent 
to about 51,000 cars, of which 9,000 were from the western box 
region. In 1923 for the corresponding six months 101,127 cars were 
shipped, including 43,566 from the boxed-apple States. While east- 
ern shipments had gained nearly two-fifths, the western boxed output 
had increased about five-fold. 
APPLES: COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION, BY REGIONS, 1918 TO 1924 
MILLIONS OF BUSHELS 
0 20 40 60 80 
1918 LLL, LLL LILLE 
919 LLL LLL 
1920 
1921 LLL — 
1922 
1923 LLL LLL 
904 LLL LLL 
pea Western boxed-apple region 4A Barreled-apple region 
Fic. 2—Commercial production of western boxed apples is increasing rapidly, while that of 
barreled apples shows no consistent gain 
THE WESTERN BOXED-APPLE REGION? 
The home of the commercial boxed apple has always been in the 
valleys of the western mountain and coastal region from the Rocky 
Mountains to the Pacific. It reaches north to the Canadian border 
and beyond. It extends south nearly to the border of Mexico. 
Kleven States are included in the western boxed-apple region: 
Washington, California, Oregon, Idaho, Colorado, Utah, New 
Mexico, Montana, Arizona, Nevada, and Wyoming, in order of 
total production. Their rank is similar in order of commercial 
production, Nevada and Wyoming being omitted entirely. There 
are scattered boxed-apple districts in Kansas, Nebraska, and Ar- 
kansas, besides fairly well-defined box shipping districts in Georgia, 
Virginia, New York, and other eastern States. 
WASHINGTON 
During the last few years Washington has become the leading 
commercial apple State. It leads not so much on account of acreage 
as because of large yields per acre and fairly regular crops—the 
2 Marketing of apples from sections other than the western boxed-apple region is discussed in United 
= oe Department of Agriculture Bulletin No. 1416 ‘‘ Marketing Barreled Apples,” by George B, Fiske, 
