4 
3 
MARKETING BARRELED APPLES 3 
total production exceeding 200,000,000 bushels in favorable sea- 
sons was fully equaled in exceptional years as far back as 1895 
and 1896. The crop of 1921 was the lightest since 1890. Average 
production for the 10 years (1905 to 1914) was less than the 10-year 
average, 1895 to 1904. Comparing production by groups of six 
years each (fig. 1, and Table 3 at the end of this bulletin) no sus- 
tained increase is shown during the last 25 or 30 years. The rapid 
gains in the boxed-apple region hardly offset the decreasing tendency 
in the Kast. 
A great change in character and marketability of the crop is sug- 
gested by the rapid and almost continuous increase in car lots shipped, 
which nearly doubled from the crop movement season of 1918 to 
that of 1923. (Table 6.) 
DISPOSITION OF THE I9I9 APPLE CROP 
PER CENT 
aie gs 4) 20 40 60 80 100 
MILLIONS 
TOTAL CROP —— —— 137 
COMMERCIAL CROP-78 & 
RURAL CONSUMPTION 
(1920 CENSUS ) 38 
CIDER, VINEGAR, 
AND MISCELLANEOUS |* 
BRB Serreled-opple region 
DRIED -- --—---—--—--— 3 
Boxec-apple region 
CANNED —-—------- 3 
Fic. 2.—Nearly two-fifths of the apple crop is used on the farms or in manufacture 
CONSUMPTION 
According to figures available for the census year and definitely 
applying only to the crop of 1919 (fig. 2), about 28 per cent of the 
total apple production of that season was kept on the farm; 57 per 
cent was commercial crop and was presumably sold mostly as fresh 
fruit; 10 per cent was used for cider, vinegar, and miscellaneous apple 
products; and a little over 2 per cent was used for drying and nearly 
as much for canning. Comparing the boxed and barreled crops of 
that season, over three-fourths of the boxed crop was estimated sold 
as fresh fruit compared with less than half af the barreled crop. 
Only 12 per cent was kept on the farm in the boxed region compared 
with 36 per cent in the barreled region. Cider and vinegar required 
4 per cent of the boxed crop and 18 per cent of the barreled. 
THE COMMERCIAL OR MARKET CROP 
Commercial orchards have been supplanting the small home or- 
chards and the proportion of first-class market fruit has increased 
along with better cultivation, fertilizing, spraying, pruning, thinning, 
sorting, and grading as practiced in business orchards. By 1916 
the commercial crop was reported separately. 
