MARKETING WESTERN BOXED APPLES 29 
A feature of midwestern cities, especially Chicago, Minneapolis, and 
Kansas City, is the active early movement of apples to cold storage, 
including very large quantities of western boxed apples. Thus 
Chicago receives half the total supply of apples in October and 
November, while at Pittsburgh, for example, receipts are fairly uni- 
form throughout the active market season, including many shipments 
from country cold storage. 
DISTRIBUTION OF BOXED APPLES 
The boxed-apple crop has a remarkably wide distribution. Re- 
ports of primary destinations of about 30,000 cars in 1919-20 included 
shipments to 2,567 cities and towns, as itemized in United States 
Department of Agriculture Bulletin 935, ‘‘The Distribution of North- 
western Boxed Apples.”’ A complete account of shipments diverted 
from first destinations would show many additional receiving points. 
The feature of recent seasons is the aggressive development of the 
small markets in the Central and Southern States. Table 10 shows 
distribution to many of the principal markets, June 1, 1923, to May 31, 
1924. 
Washington supplies most of the great eastern and midwestern 
cities with two-thirds to nine-tenths of their average boxed-apple 
receipts. Exceptions are Kansas City and St. Louis, which take only 
about one-half of their boxed-apple supply from Washington. Pro- 
portion of Washington apples in the boxed-apple supply reported in 
other large cities (1918 to 1923) ranges from 65 per cent in New York 
to 93 per cent in St. Paul. Altogether, distribution of Washington 
apples is thoroughly country-wide in its scope, because of the great 
volume of shipments and the aggressive methods of marketing 
practiced by the sellers. 
Oregon finds its best market in New York, which takes 21 per cent 
of its average boxed-apple supply from that State, comprising one- 
fifth of the car lots shipped from Oregon, but including shipments for 
export. Chicago unloaded 550 cars of Oregon apples in 1923. 
Philadelphia, Boston, Kansas City, and St. Louis all consume much 
Oregon fruit. 
Idaho averages yearly supplies of 222 cars to Chicago, 132 to New 
York, 118 to Kansas City, and 105 to St. Louis. Various western 
cities also are important markets for Idaho apples. 
Only a few hundred cars shipped from the Rocky Mountain section 
reach eastern cities, although boxed McIntosh apples from the Bitter 
Root Valley, Mont., have an assured place in the New York market. 
Colorado and Utah ship comparatively few carloads east of Chicago, 
relying much on that city, St. Louis, Denver, and Kansas City. 
poms carloads, few in number, go mostly to Kansas City and 
hicago. 
oe Mexico ships to Chicago and Kansas City, and in 1923 entered 
the markets of Dallas, New Orleans, Memphis, and Denver. No 
receipts from Nevada or Arizona are reported among the unloads of 
the leading eastern and middle western markets. 
The popularity of the California Gravensteins has increased ship- 
ments from California to New York and Boston. They totaled 587 
ears to New York and 113 cars to Boston in 1923. Twelve large cities 
take an average of 1 to 7 per cent of their boxed apples from California. 
