Export Prices 
From the pre-war year 1313 there took place a gradual 
drop in prices of export apples for three years, with an av¬ 
erage price per barrel of $3*80 in 1913 as compared with 
$3.?0 in 1914, and $3.53 in the year 1915. From 1918 de¬ 
creasing experts of apples were accompanied by a gradual an¬ 
nual increase in export prices which reached the phenomenal 
price of $8.45 per barrel -in 1919, By this time the volume 
of exports had again recovered and the year ISIS not only 
showed the highest prices ever received per barrel, but also 
the greatest aggregate value of apple exports ever witnessed 
in the United States. The total value for this year, includ¬ 
ing the value of dried apples, was $18,581,110. For the next 
two years the price per barrel again declined to $7.84 in 
1920, and $7.33 in 1931. 
Prices for dried apples exported varied but slightly 
from 1913 to 1913 as shown by the accompanying table rising 
from seven cents per pound in 1913 to 7.8 cents in 1914 c*na 
1915, and again dropping to 7.6 cents in 1916. During the 
following year the price recovered to 8.8 cents per pound. 
The principal factor in keeping down the export price of 
dried apples during these four years was the entire elimina¬ 
tion of our best export market for this commodity, Germany. 
By the year 1918 the general price level had risen to such 
a degree that, coupled with the increased demand, the price 
of dried apples exported rose to 14.1 cents per pound. This 
