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shipment from the producing region, the volume of shipment does not 
correspond in season with the volume of unloads at consuming 
centers. 
Twelve large cities using about one-third of the total annual car- 
lot shipments, boxed and barreled, unload only about one-fifth of 
the total shipments from all States during the height of the shipping 
movement in October. Before and after the peak of the shipping 
movement their proportion of that movement is much greater, often 
one-half. In May and June the 12 cities often unload more cars 
than are reported shipped during that time, because of withdrawals 
from late storage of apples that were shipped from producing sections 
at the height of the season. Car-lot aiipmients are reported when 
started from the first shipping point and not when reshipped from 
storage. 
APPLES PER CAPITA 
Great city market districts unloaded about 1 bushel of apples per 
inhabitant yearly from 1918 to 1923, as shown in Table 12. This is 
somewhat less than the average per capita for the whole country, 
based on production shown in the 1910 and 1920 census reports. 
But 15 per cent of the crop may be allowed for apples used in by- 
products and roughly 10 per cent for export. Finally the city supply 
includes 10 per cent of home-grown stock, which is not reported in 
car-lot receipts of city markets Thus the adjusted figures show 
that the total consumption per capita apparently does not differ 
greatly as between city and country. 
Of 12 large city market districts, Cincinnati, Chicago, Pittsburgh, 
and Kansas City show the heaviest per capita consumption of car-lot 
apples, about 1.3 bushels per year, but the figures include some 
reshipments trom storage to other cities. Boston, Detroit, and 
Philadelphia show only three-fifths to two-thirds of a bushel yearly 
and New York barely exceeds nine-tenths. The differences in actual 
consumption probably are slight. The cities showing light car-lot 
consumption are near producing regions, which in some instances 
supply in small lots as high as 25 per cent of the city’s requirements. 
Reshipments in small lots to other markets also must be taken into 
- account. . 
The average supply of the large city markets will figure out close 
to 1 bushel Pennie for each person, as indicated in Table 12. 
Allowing 125 medium-sized apples to the bushel, each consumer 
supplied from the great city markets uses two or three apples per 
week, besides 20 to 25 more during the year in the form of dried or 
canned apples, cider, and vinegar. On the basis of the estimated 
crop of about 200,000,000 bushels, in the United States in 1923, 
however, the maximum per capita consumption in the United States 
would be nearer 2 bushels for the season or four apples per capita 
weekly. Combined estimates therefore indicate a per capita con- 
sumption ranging from two to four apples per a ak Similar esti- 
mates for the British Isles average about two apples per week. In 
most countries of continental Europe the consumption of apples is 
comparatively light. 
GREAT CITY MARKETS 
Large city markets which unload many cars from the eastern 
barreled-apple region are shown in Figure 17 in the order of their 
importance as consuming centers for barreled apples. Comparative 
