UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Washington, D. C. v June, 1926 
MARKETING BARRELED APPLES ! 
By GeorceE B. Fiske, Investigator in Marketing Fruits and Vegetables, Bureau 
of Agricultural Economics 
CONTENTS 
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Development of commercial apple industry__ 1 Stockshimtcoldistonaceses = ee eee 34 
Features of barreled-apple producing regions 6 @onimercial by-produchs-— = 22 eae 36 
Advantages and drawbacks________________- 11 Rorecastingethewarket- =i) ee 38 
General features of commercial orcharding __ 12 Distribution of barreled apples______________ 43 
Tai eS un ean ee aren ere eee SA oe = 12 Sources and seasons of market supply___-___- 45 
Inspection at shipping point_______________- 14 @WiGysmMarkebin Ge sons semen ee ae ewe ee 48 
Grades And +Sizes =e es So 14 Features of large markets___________________- 50 
SING RS ACKAT Cereal eee eet) ee rs 17 Mariebycan dG prniceis 2 = he eee 62 
bce TT Cee en ee eee See ee 18 Market standing of varieties________________ 63 
Some weak points of barreled stock__________ 23 Horelonkap pieinad a= aa eee ee 68 
Mastern apples in: boxes=_=— ---_-- === -=___- 24 SULIT Bey ee eg ee 7 
Selhinesth@:iGr0 p <= eee 25 Sfatisticalétabless a= == eee eee BS 77 
@ooperativeamarketing=-—- ==) os = Se 30 Recent Federal publications on the market- 
sans POnbAbOM=sn es - Unease a ae a Ae 33 ing, transportation, and storage ofapples__ 99 
DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMMERCIAL APPLE INDUSTRY 
Apples have been grown in the United States for over three cen- 
turies, but the business of apple orcharding dates from about 1850 
with the beginning of the first great commercial apple section in 
western New York. 
The commercial history of apple orcharding has comprised a suc- 
cession of booms and depressions each lasting 5 to 20 years. High 
prices during the Civil War period, and until 1875, stimulated plant- 
ing in the western New York section and to some extent in eastern 
New York and New England, and a number of commercial orchards 
were started at about the same time. Then came depression until 
about 1885, when higher prices led to rapid growth of orcharding in 
the Ozarks, Missouri, Illinois, and Michigan, with increases in the 
southeastern apple region, and the beginning of boxed-apple pro- 
duction with extensive planting in central California. The States 
from Colorado westward soon came to be known as the boxed-apple 
region. 
Another depression followed, and then came the period of rapid 
growth in the Northwest and the Rocky Mountain region from 1895 
to 1910. It was a time of rapid extension in the Atlantic region also, 
especially in Virginia and adjacent States. During the 15 years 
1 Acknowledgment of material and aid is made to the Division of Agricultural Cooperation, Bureau of 
Agricultural Economics. 
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