6 BULLETIN 1416, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
FEATURES OF BARRELED-APPLE PRODUCING REGIONS? 
The term ‘‘barreled-apple region”’ is commonly applied to the whole 
region east of Colorado, even though in sections of considerable 
extent more of the crop is put up in baskets, boxes, or hampers, or 
shipped in bulk, than is sold in barrels. On account of the variety 
of packs actually employed in the various districts, the two apple 
regions are sometimes called “eastern”? and ‘‘western”’ instead of 
“barrel” and ‘“‘box,’’ respectively, but the terms last mentioned are | 
standard in commercial usage. 
In a very general way the principle apple regions where the barrel 
is the prevailing marketing package are the Northeast, the South, 
and the Middle West. This territory includes six important sections 
and many others where commercial apple orcharding is a prominent 
feature. 
NORTHEASTERN REGION 
NEW ENGLAND 
The New England appie region has features that are more or less 
general in the Northeastern States. The climate is rather severe and 
much of the soil is hard to work, but the markets are excellent. The 
Baldwin has the same prominence as in adjacent regions. Yields are 
moderate but from the younger orchards the quality of the fruit is 
of high grade. Important apple-shipping counties are Oxford, 
Androscoggin, Kennebec, Waldo, and Penobscot in Maine; Hills- 
borough in New Hampshire; and Franklin in Massachusetts. One 
of the best Northern Spy districts is at the upper end of Lake Cham- 
plain in Vermont, extending into two counties of northern New York. 
Apple-raising districts in Connecticut and Rhode Island are some- 
what scattered. In the many. new orchards planted in New England 
since 1900, the McIntosh, Wealthy, and Oldenburg are far more 
frequent than in the older plantings which were mostly Baldwin, 
Rhode Island Greening, and Northern Spy. Around Boston are 
a great many of the Williams, McIntosh, Gravenstein, and Yellow 
Transparent varieties. Some of the skillfully handled young orchards 
of New England compare favorably in average return with orchards 
anywhere in the Hast. 
HUDSON VALLEY 
The center of apple production in eastern New York is the Hudson 
Valley. There is a large proportion of fall varieties, including 
Wealthy, Oldenburg, McIntosh, and Fall Pippin as well as of standard 
winter kinds. The soil is generally not so fertile as in the western 
apple counties and the average yield is less. The leading apple-ship- 
ping counties are Columbia, Dutchess, Ulster, and Greene. Import-— 
ant shipping points are Germantown, Coxsackie, Saugerties, Milton, 
and Red Hook. New York and other large cities are easily accessible 
by train, river boat, and motor truck. The future of the section is — 
apparently as a source of early, high-grade somewhat perishable 
fruit, suitable for near-by marketing. 
* Marketing of apples from the 11 western boxed-apple States is discussed in Department Bulletin | 
No. 1415, ‘‘Marketing Western Boxed Apples,’ by George B, Fiske and Raymond R. Paithorp. 
