62 BULLETIN 1416, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
varieties in cold storage as soon as stock has reached the proper 
stage of maturity. 
7 MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL 
The car-lot apple supply of Minneapolis is in some seasons very 
evenly divided between boxed fruit, of which nine-tenths is from 
Washington, and shipments from the barrel region, mainly from New 
York, Missouri, Illinois, Michigan, and Kansas. The apple crop 
of the vicinity is not important except for a brief period in the fall. 
Oldenburg and Wealthy are the leading early varieties. Sources of 
shipment to St. Paul are practically identical with those of Minne- 
apolis, but the proportion from the box region is larger—about two- 
thirds of the total. 
Both Minneapolis and St. Paul are fairly well supplied with cold- 
storage facilities; consequently there is a tendency to buy a large 
share of the winter supply in the fall, but apples of the standard_ 
eastern and western varieties are received all winter. The apples 
are bought on f. o. b. basis through representatives in the producing 
sections or through local brokers. There is very little apple jobbing 
in the cities. The apples are usually bought in car lots and sold 
direct in small lots to the retailers. Minneapolis and St. Paul 
supply small districts in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, 
and parts of Wisconsin and Michigan. This trade is supplied in 
small lots by freight service with heating facilities. 
GENERAL MARKET PREFERENCES 
Red varieties sell more easily and at higher prices than green or 
yellow kinds. The exceptions are in markets long accustomed to 
local green or yellow apples of high quality, therefore having no 
rejudice against such colors. Baltimore and Washington readily 
ae the Grimes Golden, Yellow Newtown, Rhode Island Greening, 
and Northwestern Greening, but farther south in the Gulf States and 
Texas the yellow kinds are somewhat neglected in the markets. 
New York is a fairly good market for yellow apples and one of the 
best for the Rhode Island Greening, which sometimes sells higher 
than the Baldwin. Philadelphia likes the Greening but is in general 
a red-apple market. Boston pays more for red kinds except possibly 
the very early Yellow Transparent and Gravenstein, which has 
much red coloring. Yellow and green apples usually sell lower than 
red kinds of corresponding quality in St. Louis, Minneapolis, and 
Milwaukee.. Chicago and the city markets of Ohio and Indiana 
record no prejudice against yellow apples. 
VARIETY AND PRICE 
Taking the price of Baldwin, the leading barreled variety, as a 
standard, it may be said of other prominent kinds that Northern 
Spy, Jonathan, McIntosh, Tompkins King, Winesap, Esopus eee 
burg, and in some markets Yellow Newtown, Winter Banana, Grimes 
Golden, and Delicious under usual market conditions sell about 25 
er cent higher than the Baldwin. Rome Beauty and Stayman 
tyaata sell about the same as the Baldwin. Stark, York Imperial, 
Rhode Island Greening, and many of the yellow kinds sell pons 
5 to 20 per cent lower. Ben Davis, Gano, and most russet kinds se 
15 to 50 per cent lower, and all varieties little known in the market 
