MARKETING BARRELED APPLES 45 
Columbus, and Dayton. Copies of the itemized report may be 
obtained from the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. All but 
about 500 cars were shipped in September, October, and November, 
and of these nearly one-half in October. Comparison with preceding 
years indicates that distribution was about as usual, the large markets 
of Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Indiana taking most of the 
shipments. Comparison with unload reports in city markets suggests 
that Chicago received many of the shipments not included in the 
incomplete report of destinations. 
SOURCES AND SEASONS OF MARKET SUPPLY 
The new crop begins to move from the South before old stock in 
cold storage has been quite exhausted. Southern and southwestern 
apples start about the middle of June. Movement at the height of 
the season in October and November includes shipment to storage. 
After December, removals from cold-storage supplement shipments 
from common storage in producing sections, and nearly replace them 
during the concluding months of the season. Monthly volume of 
shipments from nine leading States is shown in Figure 16. 
The summer supply of Yellow Transparent, Early Harvest, 
Red Astrachan, Williams, and other standard early varieties is 
eradually replaced by Oldenburg, Wealthy, McIntosh, and other 
second-early kinds. The September movement is chiefly of the fall 
varieties, but the early winter kinds, including York Imperial, 
Rhode Island Greening, and Northern Spy, begin to move from 
Virginia, New York, Michigan, Illinois, and Missouri late in the 
month. Most of the States reach height of activity in October, and 
one-third or more of the barreled apples move within the month, 
including both fall and winter kinds. New York, Michigan, Virginia, 
[linois, and most of the main-crop apple States are at the top of their 
shipping volume in October. The November shipments fall off by one- 
half or more. Shipments from December onward are mostly out of 
storage in New York and Virginia, although supplemented by a con- 
siderable total from other sections. Maine continues to ship excep- 
tionally late out of common storage. 
Shipments December to June comprise a few hundred cars for 
Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and other States. Virginia ships several 
hundred cars of Winesap, Yellow Newtown, and Ben Davis out of 
cold storage in May and June. New York, Illinois, and Missouri 
move considerable eastern late-storage fruit. May shipments of 
barrels and baskets were between 200 and 700 cars per year from 1919 
to 1922 but exceeded 1,200 in 1923 and 1,300 in 1924. June ship- 
ments have usually averaged about 200 cars in recent years, but 
reached close to 1,000 in 1922 and over 500 in 1924, besides some 
shipments of boxed apples. : 
he greater part - the boxed-apple shipping movement is in fall 
and winter, exceeding barreled apples at times from October to 
February, even though the boxed-apple crop is lighter. Barreled 
apples commonly lead in summer and early fall because of the larger 
roportion of early varieties in the Kast and they lead again from 
farch to June. 
Because of late eastern shipments from country cold storage, and 
because of the large quantity held in cold storage for long periods after 
