40 BULLETIN 1415, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Under ordinary conditions, most dealers prefer to lay in their 
supplies for the season during October and November, and compara- 
tively little fruit is received after that time. Practically all of this 
stock is immediately placed in storage and taken out as required. 
The most popular table varieties of boxed apples are the Delicious, 
Esopus Spitzenburg, Stayman Winesap, Winesap, and Rome Beauty, © 
but the yellow varieties also sell readily. The larger sizes of all 
varieties are in demand. Stock of poor grade and secondary quality 
is in light demand in this market and usually is sold at a heavy dis- 
count. 
PITTSBURGH 
Two general methods of selling boxed apples prevail in the Pitts- 
burgh market. About 75 per cent of the sales are made direct by 
the receiver to the jobber or wholesaler, and about 25 per cent through 
the auction. Private sales by receivers usually are made directly 
from cars, though more boxed apples are unloaded on arrival and 
stored than is customary with other lines of produce. 
Most receivers have storage facilities and can store stock if the 
movement from cars is too slow to allow arrivals to be disposed of 
promptly. One of the larger houses makes a practice of selling its 
entire supply through the store, offering no stock for sale from the 
cars. Usually prices obtained at the stores are slightly higher than 
yard prices, although the difference is largely offset by cost of dray- 
age and handling. 
About one-fifth of the 2,800 cars of apples unloaded at Pittsburgh 
annually, come from the boxed-apple region. Heavier loading of 
boxed apples brings the proportion in actual quantity to slightly 
over one-fourth (fig. 21). Of these supplies Washington forwards 
85 per cent or about 500 cars, Idaho, Oregon, California, and Colo- — 
rado make up the additional 15 per cent, bringing the total receipts 
close to 600 cars of boxed apples per year. 
Towns within a radius of 50 to 75 miles draw on Pittsburgh for — 
their supplies. The demand for boxed apples is good during almost 
the entire season, in spite of the fact that heavy shipments of barreled 
stock are received from neighboring States. Dealers in surrounding 
towns usually buy less than carload lots, although a number of car- 
lot sales are made. The most popular varieties are Delicious, Esopus 
Spitzenburg, Jonathan, Winesap, and Rome Beauty. The favorite 
sizes are from 72 to 150 per box. 
MIDWESTERN 
CHICAGO 
Approximately 2,700 cars, or 40 per cent of the total number 
unloaded, are drawn from the western boxed-apple region. Washing- 
ton supplies three-fourths of the boxed unloads, Idaho about one- 
twelfth, and Oregon and California together, one-tenth. Colorado 
ships around 100 cars annually to this market, and small quantities 
are received from each of the other leading boxed-apple States. 
Comparative sources of boxed and barreled supplies in this market 
are shee in Figure 22. 
