68 BULLETIN 1416, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
YATES 
A smallish, long-keeping, good-shipping, but low-flavored, red 
variety is the Yates, grown at the southern end of the apple belt and 
seen only in southern markets. 
YELLOW NEWTOWN 
The best-known, high-grade, yellow kind is the Yellow Newtown. 
Production in the East is mainly in two or three counties of the . 
Piedmont section of Virginia where it is known as Albemarle Pippin. 
The Newtown formerly led the export market, but in recent seasons 
it has sold about on a level with the high-grade red varieties. It is 
popular in some domestic markets and competes with Winesap in 
spring and summer, as it is a very late keeper and excels that variety 
in eating and cooking qualities. 
YORK IMPERIAL 
The ‘‘ Baldwin of the middle South,” the York Imperial has gained 
some favor farther west, but production centers in the Shenandoah 
and Cumberland sections. It reaches the great city markets a 
little earlier than the Baldwin and sells at about the same price, 
although not quite so popular for cooking or for storage. A tend- 
ency to scald in storage is considered one of its most serious market 
defects. . 
VARIETIES CHANGING POSITION 
Some varieties are popular in the market but have been losing 
favor in the producing regions because of some orchard fault which 
makes the variety difficult to produce or handle with profit. These 
include Jonathan, Esopus Spitzenburg, Gravenstein, Tompkins 
King, Yellow Bellflower, Hubbardston, and Red Astrachan. Some 
kinds, like Roxbury Russet, Willowtwig, and Missouri Pippin, valued 
chiefly as long keepers, are in little demand because cold storage now 
keeps the better varieties in the market. Large, coarse apples, 
having little flavor or cooking quality are harder than ever to sell 
with the increasing use of the box pack. Varieties lke Alexander, 
Bietigheimer, Wolf River, Bismarck, Fallawater, Cabashea, and 
Blue Pearmain have defects of quality and even of color, which 
make them poor sellers. 
A few comparatively new or little-known kinds are gaining in 
market. prominence, including the productive, high-grade, and 
general utility Stayman Winesap; the new dessert apple, Delicious; 
the attractive, high-flavored McIntosh; the medium-early, produc- 
tive, utility apples, Wealthy and Oldenburg; and the early and 
attractive Starr, Yellow Transparent, and Wilhams. 
FOREIGN APPLE TRADE 
Apple exports have averaged only about 5 to 10 per cent of the 
commercial crop, yet the export situation has had much to do with 
the course of the general apple market. The sudden change in 
market conditions and the rise in price, on the resumption of apple 
exports after the World War is an example still fresh i memory. 
The export movement is a useful safety valve in years of heavy 
production. Imports form hardly more than 5 per cent of the foreign 
apn trade and because of their small volume have little effect on 
the general market. 
