MARKETING BARRELED APPLES 7 
WESTERN NEW YORK 
For the past half century the western New York section has led 
all others in the barreled output. The great apple counties are 
Orleans, Niagara, Monroe, and Wayne, also Ontario, Genesee, Yates, 
Wyoming, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, and Oswego. Most of the 
leading counties are along the southern shore of Lake Ontario. 
Important shipping points are Hilton, Lockport, Albion, Barker, 
Medina, Williamson, Holley, Burt, Brockport, Lyndonville, and 
Middleport. — 
The Baldi is the leading variety, and for nearly half a century 
the apple markets of the country fluctuated season by season mainly 
according to the quantity and quality of the New York Baldwin 
which has constituted usually about half the production of the region. 
Rhode Island Greening makes up nearly half the rest. Northern 
Fig. 4.—Picking apples in western New York 
Spy ranks next, followed by Tompkins King, Oldenburg, Wealthy, 
McIntosh, Roxbury Russet, Hubbardston, Twenty Ounce, and 
various less important varieties. Most of these kinds bear more 
heavily as a rule in the alternate years. 
New York’s commercial production sometimes reaches 6,000,000 
barrels, two-thirds of it in western New York. Many of the old 
orchards have passed their prime and recent new planting is of 
moderate extent. Apparently the region is losing some of its prom- 
inence, compared with more rapidly increasing regions of the South 
and the Northwest. The principal markets are the great cities of 
the Northeast, but distribution extends west and south when crops 
are light in other apple regions. 
Figure 4 shows picking of apples in a typical large commercial 
orchard of this section. 
PENNSYLVANIA 
In the census year of 1919, Pennsylvania was the eighth State in 
_ total apple production, fourth in number of bearing trees, and second 
