64. BULLETIN 1415, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
month or more after the barreled holdings have been practically 
exhausted. The market effect of cold storage is to regulate the supply 
and prolong the season, adding to the cost of the fruit 15 to 20 cents 
per box for the seven-months storage season, October to April, or a 
smaller amount if stored by the month and moved before the end of 
the regular season. 
MARKET SUPPLY INCREASING 
Supplies of northwestern boxed apples seem to be increasing 
relatively faster than those of barreled apples in the 12 cities report- 
ing over the six-year period, 1918 to 1923, as charted in Figure 27. 
Unloads of barreled stock in 1923 were 24,887 cars or approximately 
3,000 more than in 1918. Boxed unloads in 1923 were 19,854 cars 
or over three times the total for 1918, although some allowance for 
incompleteness may be necessary for the unload reports of the 
APPLES: COLD STORAGE HOLDINGS, BOXED AND BARRELED, BY MONTHS, 
AVERAGE OF SEASONS 1918 TO 1923 
BUSHELS 
THOUSANDS 
Apples In boxes 
10,000. Y Apples in barrels 
ls 
and other containers 
Zs except boxes 
7,500 
| 
5,000 
2,500 
0 - 
OcT.! NOVI ODEC.I JAN! FEB,! MAR.| APR.I MAY! JUNE] 
Fic. 26.—Stocks of boxed apples in cold storage reached greatest volume later than barreled apples 
and were withdrawn more gradually for distribution 
earlier years. The increase in barreled receipts was continuous 
except in 1919 and for the very short crop of 1921. Boxed un- 
loads showed yearly increases of 2,000 to 6,000 cars throughout 
the six years with the exception of 1922. In 1919 the proportion of 
increase In boxed unloads was nearly 50 per cent, an in 1923 the 
total was more than 200 per cent greater than in 1918; barreled 
unloads showed only 15 per cent increase in the same period. There 
was a large crop of barreled apples in 1920 and nearly two-thirds 
of the total movement of that shipping season was from the barrel 
sections, yet the proportion of boxed apples among the supplies of 
these cities was considerably greater aah in 1918, when barreled 
apples constituted about the same per cent of the total shipments 
to all cities. In 1921, a year of short crops in the barrel States, 
boxed apples composed 47 per cent of the car-lot supplies of the 12 
cities. 
Increases in shipments during the six-season period were, roughly, 
31,000 and 37,000 cars for barrel and box sections respectively, or 
