. Bulletin - Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Agriculture -- Massachusetts. THE APPLE IN MASSACHUSETTS CHART 11. Production of Principal Varieties, 1924. 101 Thousands of Bushels 300 Percent of Total 60. BaLOW/N M1NT05H fiPAVENJTtIN VlALTHY OTHEBS-EaBLY 0THEB3-UtE Only 209 growers reported the sale of more tlian two grades, while 23 report- ed as many as four or more grades. Massachusetts apples are sold in three graded and three ungraded classes. The graded classes are Fancy, A and B. The ungraded include one class from which legal grades have been removed; one from which culls
. Bulletin - Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Agriculture -- Massachusetts. THE APPLE IN MASSACHUSETTS CHART 11. Production of Principal Varieties, 1924. 101 Thousands of Bushels 300 Percent of Total 60. BaLOW/N M1NT05H fiPAVENJTtIN VlALTHY OTHEBS-EaBLY 0THEB3-UtE Only 209 growers reported the sale of more tlian two grades, while 23 report- ed as many as four or more grades. Massachusetts apples are sold in three graded and three ungraded classes. The graded classes are Fancy, A and B. The ungraded include one class from which legal grades have been removed; one from which culls and ciders only have been removed; and one which includes all apples as they come from the tree. The usual grades for the growers reporting three grades are A, B and culls or ungraded. Less than 1 per cent of the growers make a practice of putting up a Fancy grade. There is a widespread belief that too close grading is not profitable, and prices received offer some justification for this belief. The percentage of each grade varies with the variety.* The following table shows the distribution into market classes of the crop of 1924. It will be noted that in every case the highest proportion of apples was sold as "un- graded, culls and ciders out", and that 65 per cent of all apples were sold ungraded. Sixty-three per cent of all graded fruit was found to be in A grade. By varieties, it is of interest that Delicious apples show the highest per- centage of Fancy, more than 10 per cent being reported in this class, in con- trast with less than 3 per cent for all varieties. This is to be accounted for by the fact that the market demand for this variety is almost entirely for the better grades. Northern Spy shows a higher proportion of A grade than any other variety, 36 per cent, and the Mcintosh stands second with 30 per cent in this grade. Mcintosh likewise has the highest percentage of graded fruit. Only 35 per cent of the Baldwin crop was reported graded. This variety i
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