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from Boston, which began to report box shipments that season. Port- 
land, Me., began in 1912. In 1923, from January to April, 1,524,142 
boxes were shipped to 45 countries and dependencies, and 1,870,000 
boxes were shipped during the whole 1922-23 season. Box ship- 
ments for the first three months of the 1923-24 crop season averaged 
about 200,000 per week and the season’s total exceeded 6,000,000 
boxes. Box exports and barrel exports in recent seasons were about 
equal in volume stated as bushels. In British and in some West 
Indian markets, barrels continued to lead, but most other regions 
have been taking more apples in boxes than in barrels. 
Fig. 29.—Loading boxed apples for export at Hoboken, N. J. 
EXPANDING EXPORTS MARKETS 
Active resumption of shipments of boxed apples to Germany and 
the heavy movement to Pan-American ports were features of 1922-23, 
and 1923-24. Exports from Seattle (fig. 30) and Portland on the 
north Pacific coast have been important since 1920, including ship- 
ments to South American and Asiatic ports, as well as to Europe. 
One shipper sent the equivalent of 50 carloads of boxed apples to 
Buenos Aires in 1923-24. For the 12 months ended June, 1923, the 
customs districts of the Pacific coast reported as many exports of 
boxed apples as were reported shipped out from New York. Over a 
million boxes, equivalent to 1,300 carloads, were cleared from Portland 
harbor alone. Direct shipments from Portland and Seattle to ports 
of continental Europe in refrigerator ships by way of the Panama 
Canal have proved very satisfactory. 
The season 1922-23 was the first in which there were very large 
surplus crops of boxed as well as barreled apples. The car-lot move- 
