48 BULLETIN 1415, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Beauty, Delicious, Esopus Spitzenburg, White Pearmain, Winter 
Banana, Yellow Newtown, and Ben Davis. 
A comparative statement of apple stocks on hand in Milwaukee, 
both in common and cold storage, shows the rapid gain in popularity 
of boxed apples over barreled stock in this market during the past 
few years: On March 1, 1915, there were 16,200 barrels and 8,500 
boxes on hand. On March 1, 1923, the available stocks comprised | 
9,000 barrels and 70,000 boxes. 
SOUTHERN 
NORFOLK 
In boxed apples, the bulk of the movement is of the Fancy grade. 
Only a small proportion of Extra Fancy boxed apples is used in 
Norfolk. Usually barreled fruit supplies the bulk of the trade, 
except in years when the Virginia crop is light or of low quality. At 
such times boxed apples are used in larger quantities, if they can 
be obtained at profitable prices. In these years the supply of barreled 
apples usually is procured from New York and Ohio points, though 
when fair-quality Virginia apples are available they are preferred. 
The produce trade in Norfolk supplies the cities of Norfolk and 
Portsmouth and near-by territory in southeastern Virginia and 
eastern North Carolina. 
ATLANTA 
In 1923-24 there were unloaded in Atlanta 554 cars of apples 
(Table 10), of which 218 came from the western boxed apple region. 
Washington alone forwarded 189 cars, and California, Oregon, and 
Idaho made up the balance of the boxed supplies. Most carloads 
that arrive in Atlanta are split up between several jobbers, or are 
stored by the receivers to be distributed as needed, in lots of 5 to 
50 packages. Many small towns within a radius of 100 to 150 miles 
draw on Atlanta for their apple supplies. These are shipped out by 
local freight, or occasionally i express. Practically no mixed cars 
are loaded and shipped from this point. The principal sizes and 
grades in boxed apples are 113s and smaller, Fancy and C grade, 
with a few Extra Fancy. Home-grown stock is usually ‘“‘jumbled”’ 
in boxes and much is stored to be drawn upon later when supplies 
from other sections are cleaning up. Not all sales are made through 
regular channels; a few cars are held and sold on track to peddlers 
and other trade, particularly around the holidays. Much of the 
stock sold on track is of only fair quality or is in poor condition. 
NEW ORLEANS 
New Orleans is a somewhat typical southern market in its depend- 
ence in shipped-in supplies, preferably red varieties. Kven the 
rather ordinary varieties, Ben Davis and Arkansas Black, seem more 
in favor than choice yellow kinds like Grimes Golden and Yellow 
Newtown. The boxed Delicious is becoming very popular in this 
market, as elsewhere, and boxed Jonathans and Winesaps are stand- 
ard. Of 636 cars unloaded at New Orleans in 1923-24, 419 were of 
boxed apples, Washington alone having shipped 249. California, 
