38 BULLETIN 1415, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
PHILADELPHIA 
About 65 per cent of the boxed apples received at Philadelphia are 
sold at auction. Car-lot receivers sell to jobbers or to any large 
buyers. Monday and Thursday are most active market days. The 
boxed-apple supply begins with California Gravenstein, followed by 
Northwestern Jonathan, Delicious, Stayman Winesap, Yellow New- 
town, and Winesap. Red varieties in general are preferred. 
The Extra Fancy grade meets the best demand. The demand for 
different sizes varies considerably with the season and with the 
variety of the apple. As a rule, large sizes are preferred. After the 
100 and larger sizes are moved, the 150s and 163s are usually the next 
in demand. Demand for 125s and 138s varies, sometimes being 
better than for the 150s and 163s and sometimes not so good. The 
large sizes, especially of Stayman Winesap and Delicious, are always 
in demand by the fancy fruit stands. As they command an excep- 
tionally high price and as the supply of these sizes is seldom heavy, 
they bring a decided premium. ‘The demand for yellow varieties is 
limited, but receipts of two or three cars a week of this stock meet a 
fairly good demand, especially for the 100s and larger. 
Less than one-half of the number of cars unloaded at Philadelphia 
come from the boxed-apple region, and of these 90 per cent are shipped 
from Washington. Other States that contribute small quantities 
each season are Oregon, California, and Idaho. The map, Figure 20, 
shows relative supplies from all principal contributing sources of 
both boxed and barreled stock. 
BALTIMORE 
Most of the boxed apples received at Baltimore are from Wash- 
ington and Oregon, with a few cars from California and Idaho and 
some in less than car lots from Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. 
About one-fourth of the western stock is sold at auction, the remainder 
at the railroad yards, principally in a jobbing way. A few car-lot 
sales are made to out-of-town buyers. The principal box varieties in 
demand are Stayman Winesap, Grimes Golden, Rome Beauty, White 
Pearmain, Esopus Spitzenburg, Winesap, Yellow Newtown, Delicious, 
and Jonathan in about the order named. 
WASHINGTON 
Practically all arrivals of boxed apples at the two railroad terminal 
yards have been purchased in advance by the receivers. No sales 
are made at the yards. The apples are trucked to the wholesale 
section near the business center, or are taken to the cold storage. 
A few of the larger retail dealers, who are small jobbers, may buy 
certain choice lots from a car and store them for short periods, but 
the bulk of the storage stock is owned by the wholesalers. Most of 
the boxed apples are sold in very small lots to the retailers as there 
is no distinct jobbing class of dealers. 
Of an average of over 500 cars unloaded annually at Washington 
from 1918 to 1923, about 35 per cent onus in the western boxed 
apple region. Of the boxed supplies, 
nine-tenths, and Oregon, California, and Idaho together made up the 
remaining one-tenth. 
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