States entered upon a period of unprecedented prosperity 
and at once began to demand, among other things, the Ameri¬ 
can apple to which she had become accustomed prior to the 
war period* The year 1918 showed the most remarkable values 
in the history of the United States export trade in apples* 
These exports consisted of 1,713,367 barrels of apples 
valued at $14,471,383, and 24,704,359 pounds of dried ap¬ 
ples valued at $4,109,282, or an aggregate value of $18,581, 
110. This is an increase of 45 per cent in the total value, 
but a decrease of 11 per cent in the quantity of ripe apples 
and 36 per cent in the quantity of dried apples exported, as 
compared with the pre-war year 1913, when the aggregate val¬ 
ue of exports was $10,136,603. 
The accompanying tables show the fluctuations in ex¬ 
ports from year to year as well as the val\ies per unit. A 
careful study of these impresses one with the fact that the 
changing production due to seasonal conditions, frost in¬ 
jury, etc., has a direct bearing upon the price as well as 
the volume of exports from year to year. While the average 
annual crop from 1910-1930 has exceeded that of 1900-1910, 
yet the increase is very much less than the difference in 
value would indicate, nothwithstanding the fact that many 
new orchards in the Northwestern States have come into pro¬ 
fitable bearing during the last decade. 
From the record high value of apple exports of 
$18,581,110 in 1919 there was a drop to $15,597,730 in 1920, 
and a somewhat smaller drop to $16,188,708 for 1921. The 
greater aecline was intbhe dried apple exports which fell 
