MARKETING BARRELED APPLES 5 
and barrel commercial crops three-fourths are shipped as cay tots. 
New York, Arkansas, nd’ Virginia shipped three-fourths of their 
six-year average commercial crops 1918-1923; Illinois, Delaware, 
Maryland, West Virginia, and Maine about two-thirds; Michigan, 
Missouri, and Georgia not far from one-half. Most of the Southern 
States ship only small percentages, likewise Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, 
Oklahoma, and Massachusetts. Apples not shipped in car lots are 
assumed to have been sold in small lots or used locally in miscellaneous 
ways. 
Apple shipments increased from less than 70,000 cars in 1918-19 
to 138,000 in 1923-24, with average of 102,000 cars, of which 46,000 
were from boxed-apple States and 57,000 from the barreled-appls 
APPLES 
COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION AND CAR-LOT SHIPMENTS BY REGIONS 
SEAS ONS,.1318;70-1923 
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Fic. 3.—The proportion of the commercial crop shipped is less in the barreled-apple region than 
in the Northwest. A large part of the barreled crop moves in trucks and in less than car lots 
or is consumed locally 
SHIPMENTS 
region. The first five States in average volume of shipments from the 
barrel region were New York, Virginia, Michigan, Illinois, and West 
Virginia, ranging from nearly 23,000 cars down to 3,500, which to- 
gether are responsible for three-fourths of the carloads from the 
barrel regions and about two-fifths of all car-lot apple shipments 
combined, or 34 per cent of the total bushels, both boxed and barreled- 
shipped in car lots. Three States follow with about 2,000 cars each— 
Arkansas, Pennsylvania, and Missouri. Two States, Maine and 
Maryland, exceeded 4,000 cars. Four States range below 1,000 cars 
oe year but above 500 cars—Delaware, Kansas, Ohio, and New 
ersey. The ratings of the States as shipping sections differ consid- 
erably from their order in commercial production, chiefly because of 
the good home markets near some producing districts. Tables 6 
and 7 include more precise and detailed statements of State and re- 
gional shipments. 
