MARKETING BARRELED APPLES 63 
where offered sell at irregular prices. Details of the characteristics of 
leading varieties of barreled apples are shown in Table 16, p. 91. 
Most markets report increasing quantities of apples packed in 
bushel baskets. Some receivers ask shippers to use this pack. 
Basket apples in general have a lower market standing than the barrel 
pack, perhaps because many early apples, windfalls, and drops are 
put up in baskets, whereas the finest stock intended for cold storage 
mostly goes into barrels. Actual prices often range 20 to 25 per 
cent lower than the same quality packed in barrels. Dealers say 
there is little difference, however, if the basket stock is well selected, 
carefully handled, and shipped only short distances. A great deal 
of first-class fruit of the late crop goes into basket pack, including 
millions of baskets good enough for cold storage. Basket stock 
from storage is popular in the spring market because in warm weather 
a package smaller than the barrel is more convenient for retailers. 
MARKET STANDING OF VARIETIES 
If high red color is added to good culinary and dessert qualities, 
the variety should be a market success provided it can be supplied 
- at moderate cost. Since many of the choice varieties are costly to 
put on the market because of some fault in tree or fruit, the leaders 
are mainly the varieties of passable quality which can be grown and 
marketed at relatively low cost per busuel. Cooking quality counts 
for more with barreled stock than with boxed apples. The two 
leaders, Baldwin and, in the Middle West, Ben Davis, are sold mainly 
for cooking. Many important varieties like York Imperial, Rhode 
Island Greening, Oldenburg and Wealthy and even such showy, 
high-flavored apples as Northern Spy and Tompkins King are much 
in demand for cooking. A few choice kinds, including Winesap, 
Stayman Winesap, Jonathan, Esopus Spitzenburg, Yellow New- 
town, Delicious, and Rome Beauty are well-known and fairly im- 
portant in the barrel class, but are more prominent in the box pack. 
Grouped with reference to season, standard late varieties are the 
leading class grown in western New York, northern New England, 
Virginia, West Virginia, Michigan, Ohio, Arkansas, and Missouri, 
and the greater part of the Middle West. Regions specializing 
somewhat on early summer and fall varieties are eastern New York, 
southern New England, New Jersey, Delaware, North Carolina, 
Georgia, Tennessee, and southern Illinois. Because of the short 
erowing season, the fall varieties are prominent in the extreme 
northern sections of the apple belt, including Wisconsin, Minnesota, 
northern New England, and some of the apple districts of Canada, 
but strictly the early apple sections are those where the crop matures 
in time for the summer and early fall markets. Production of this 
class tends to center in regions near the great cities, because 
quick transportation to market is necessary in warm weather for 
this perishable fruit. 
The summer and fall varieties are usually classed as the early crop. 
They constitute most of the shipments before October and consist 
mainly of such kinds as Yellow Transparent, Red Astrachan, Williams, 
Oldenburg, Gravenstein, and Wealthy. They begin from Tennessee, 
Kentucky, southern Illinois, and Georgia, but form a part of the 
of the shipments from all apple regions ending with Oldenburg, 
