26 BULLETIN 1415, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
CANNED APPLES 
The output of canned apples from the northwestern sources in 
1923 was unofficially estimated at 747,651 cases for Washington, 
358,972 for Oregon, 23,571 for California, and a considerable quantity, 
not stated separately, for Idaho. 
Many apples are shipped to factories from Yakima, Spokane, 
Milton, Freewater, Walla Walla, Hood River, White Salmon, Eugene, 
Yoncalla, Roseburg, Medford, and Ashland. Most of the apples 
are shipped in bulk, 20 to 25 tons to the car. A movable bulkhead 
: used in the car, so that apples may be put in and taken out without 
ruising. 
Canning apples are shipped from packing plants in the various 
roducing sections or from the growers’ svareli buss where grading 
is being done, in bulk or in lug boxes. Uusually they are bought 
by weight at prices ranging from $6 to $12 per ton according to 
season, quality, and location, but mostly $6 to $8, although prices 
as low as $1.50 and up to $15 have been reported, owing to great 
variations in suEey and demand from season to season. 
Canning apples are peeled, seed pockets or cores removed, and 
all blemishes cut out by hand. The apples under 214 inches and 
those not good enough for other purposes are used for cider making. 
The peels and cores are pressed for vinegar. 
THE MARKET SEASON 
The shipping movement of boxed apples (fig. 16) does not become 
generally active until September. The chief exception is California, 
which ships a few cars in June, 100 to 300 cars usually in July, and 500 
to 1,000 in August, but, in July 1923, California shipments reached 
nearly 1,300 cars. These are mostly Gravensteins, with country- 
wide distribution. Washington ships 20 to 40 cars in July, chiefly 
Yellow Transparents, which are marketed within the boxed-apple 
territory. In late August the boxed-apple States are all shipping. 
California still leads, with New Mexico Jonathans usually second in 
volume. Some early-fall apples go out from Washington, and there is 
a scattering movement from other box-shipping States. September 
shipments are general, with Colorado, Idaho, and Washington 
Jonathan and Delicious prominent features. The combined move- 
ment reaches height in October, with about one-third the box total of 
the season averaged for that month. Oregon sometimes reaches its 
height in November, although shipments in general show marked 
decrease. With the arrival of winter conditions, shipments decrease 
sometimes one-half in December, and thereafter the usual trend of 
movement is downward all winter, and becomes only a few hundred 
carloads in May and June. The last carloads are chiefly Winesap 
and Yellow Newtown from cold storage in Washington, Oregon, and 
California. 3 
Supplies of boxed apples at most of the large cities follow the same 
general time schedule, as indicated in Figure 17. They increase 
gradually and reach their height in October or November, then 
decrease gradually, closing in June, and averaging in the later months 
about half the volume at the height of the season. Many cities show 
a temporary increase with the return of mild weather in early spring. 
