MARKETING BARRELED APPLES 69 
EXTENT 
Apple exports averaged a little over 2,000,000 barrels per season 
from 1918-19 to 1923-24. The figures include boxes reckoned as 
one-third of a barrel. Average exports of boxed apples became 
about equal to those in barrels from 1920 to 1923. The 1923-24 
combined movement of over 4,000,000 barrels was the result of heavy 
market pressure in the United States and extreme shortage in Europe. 
These conditions prevailed to some degree in 1924-25 and 1925-26, 
with repeated heavy export movement. Greatest exports usually have 
occurred in the years of even dates in line with the heavy alternate 
Fic. 23.—Temporary storage of barreled apples at docks, awaiting export 
crops in the Eastern States. But the increasing production of the 
boxed-apple section and the greater acreage of varieties that bear 
heavy annual crops tend to provide a large export surplus every 
season. Some idea of the scale of export operations may be had 
from Figure 23 which shows temporary storage at docks of barreled 
apples for export. 
MARKETS 
Three-fourths of the average apple exports go to the United 
Kingdom, including over four-fifths of the barreled apples exported. 
_ The remainder are taken chiefly by Canada, by the Scandinavian 
countries and Germany, and by Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, and 
_ Brazil. Recent gains in exports to continental Europe are principally 
of the boxed fruit. 
SEASON 
The bulk of the apple export movement is from September to the 
end of April. Shipments are irregular; the peak of the season tends 
to occur in November and December but may happen any month 
from October to February. The heaviest month of all during the 
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