44 BULLETIN 1416, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
quantities of western New York sae regularly year after year, 
although Boston, Chicago, and St. Louis are important when crops 
are short in other sources of supply. 
SOUTHEASTERN REGION 
Shipments from Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey are chiefly 
of eae varieties to Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Baltimore, and 
to the smaller markets of the Northeast. New Jersey sends heavy 
supplies by rail and motor truck to New York and Philadelphia and 
ships some car lots to New England in favorable market seasons. 
Pennsylvania apples find leading markets within the State and in 
New York. 
Reports from a cooperative association in western New Jersey show 
distribution of 223 cars of apples by rail, or over half the car-lot ship- 
ments of the State, and the equivalent of 184 cars by truck in 1923. 
Of the 29 destinations shown, almost all were in the near-by north- 
eastern States. New York City received 69 carloads of these apples 
by rail and approximately 75 by truck. Brooklyn received 12 car- 
loads and Newark 66, all by truck. Of 54 cars sent to Massachu- 
setts, Boston took 45. Shipments to Connecticut were 25 cars and 
to Pennsylvania only 23 by rail, Philadelphia receiving an additional 
25 carloads by truck. Two cars went as far west as Louisville and 
10 were exported. 
SOUTHERN REGION 
In proportion to its volume of production and considering the excel- 
lence of many of its leading varieties, the southern crop—mainly that 
of Virginia and West Virginia—seems less widely distributed in the 
greater markets than the crop of the Northeast. Apples from Vir- 
ginia and West Virginia appear in hundreds of markets in the United 
States and Canada, but reach fairly heavy volume only in New York, 
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, and Norfolk. They 
appear comparatively little in the unloads of northern and midwest- 
ern markets. Apples from States south of Virginia go chiefly to local 
markets except the very early apples of Tennessee and Kentucky 
and the fall apples in boxes from Georgia. 
MIDWESTERN REGION 
Midwestern apples are somewhat local in distribution, seldom 
appearing in eastern markets, and in the South prominent chiefly in 
Birmingham, Memphis, and New Orleans. The more southern States 
of the Middle West—Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Oklahoma, and 
Nebraska—supply southern markets to a considerable extent; the 
more northern States—Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, 
and lowa—find their markets chiefly in the North Central area. 
Ohio finds principal outlets in the Ohio Valley markets, but has fairly 
extensive Fee ton east and south. 
Michigan shipped over 9,200 cars in the season of 1923-24. 
Records of primary destinations are available for 5,636 cars shipped 
September to May. More than half of them went to points in 
Michigan and Illinois, over 1,700 to each State, besides numerous 
boatloads not included in the car-lot reports. Chicago alone received 
about 1,500 cars and Detroit, 700. Ohio received 861 cars. About 
four-fifths of them went to Cincinnati, Cleveland, Toledo, Akron, 
