52 BULLETIN 1416, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Oldenburg during September, Wealthy during September and Oc- 
tober, and Twenty Ounce from October 1 to December 15 are the 
principal fall varieties from New York. A considerable volume of 
the McIntosh is offered between November 15 and the end of the 
year, and an occasional car of this variety is seen on the market as 
late as the last of April. Northern Spy is sold chiefly between De- 
cember 1 and March 15, but supplies are never very heavy. By far 
the most important varieties offered here from New York State are 
Baldwin and Rhode Island Greening. Greening appears as early as 
October 1 and dominates the market for cooking apples throughout 
the season. Baldwin appears about the first of November and con- 
tinues in steady volume until about the last of May. It is con- 
sidered the market leader throughout this period of over six months. 
The principal variety from Virginia is York Imperial, appearing 
about the Ist of October and comimg in regular supply aah the ist 
of March. Winesap, Stayman Winesap, Ben Davis, and Rome 
Beauty are sold in lighter volume between December 1 and March 
31. Yellow Newtown or Albemarle Pippin from Virginia is offered 
a New York City between the middle of March and the middle of 
une. 
The standard pack for barreled apples for sale locally, and the one 
upon which practically all buying is based, is the A grade, 24% inches 
and upward in diameter. The larger sizes (234 inches upward and 
3 inches upward) command from 50 to 75 cents per barrel more for 
each one-fourth inch in diameter. 
Most shipments from the Hudson River Valley come down the 
river on steamboats and are hauled to the receiver’s store where they 
are sold.. Rail shipments from the Hudson River Valley, western’ 
New York, Vermont, and Maine, which represent the great bulk of 
the receipts of eastern apples, are loaded upon floats at Srxty-eighth 
Street, New York, and at Weehawken, N. J., and are lightered in 
their original cars to Pier 17 at Barclay Street, where they are un- 
loaded and sold. The receipts from the South arrive at Jersey City 
and are lightered across to Pier 28, where they are unloaded and 
sold. Most of the barreled apples are sold at these two places, Pier 
17 and Pier 28. 
All delivering is done by the receivers as the buyers’ trucks are not 
allowed on the piers, and the apples are delivered to the buyers’ 
stores about as cheaply as the buyer could haul them. Sales are 
made on “dock” basis and 1214 to 20 cents per barrel for cartage is © 
added to the sale price, depending on the section of the city to which 
the stock is to be delivered. In many cases, when on account of a dull 
market a receiver is unable to ‘‘clean up” at a satisfactory price, he 
hauls the apples to his store and sells them in smaller lots there. 
In such cases shippers are charged for cartage and the commission 
for selling is a little higher. But because usually it is possible to get a 
slightly higher price for small sales made from the stores, some 
shippers request their receivers to follow this procedure with all of 
their cars. 
PHILADELPHIA 
Receipts at Philadelphia from the barrel region represent about 60 
per cent of apples arriving in car lots. Nine-tenths of the remainder 
are from Washington. The chief eastern sources of supply are New 
York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Delaware, West Virginia, Maryland, 
