. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. September, 1920 BETTER FRUIT United States Export Trade in Apples (Prepared by the Division of Statistics, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce) THE calendar year 1919 shows the most remarkable values in the history of the United Sstates export trade in apples. These exports con- sisted of 24,704,359 pounds of dried apples, invoiced at $4,109,828, and 1,712,367 barrels of ripe or green ap- ples, worth $14,471,282, or an aggre- gate value of $18,581,110. This is an increase of 45 per cent in the total value, but a decrease of 36 per cent in the quantity of drie
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. September, 1920 BETTER FRUIT United States Export Trade in Apples (Prepared by the Division of Statistics, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce) THE calendar year 1919 shows the most remarkable values in the history of the United Sstates export trade in apples. These exports con- sisted of 24,704,359 pounds of dried apples, invoiced at $4,109,828, and 1,712,367 barrels of ripe or green ap- ples, worth $14,471,282, or an aggre- gate value of $18,581,110. This is an increase of 45 per cent in the total value, but a decrease of 36 per cent in the quantity of dried apples and 11 per cent in the quantity of fresh apples exported, as compared with the pre-war calendar year 1913, when the exports were 38,734,465 pounds of dried apples, invoiced at $2,719,203, and 1,920,221 barrels of green or ripe apples, worth $7,417,400, or an aggre- gate value of $10,136,603. The extraordinary fluctuations in the value and volume of this trade for the calendar years 1913-1919 may be noted in the table of exports and the average annual prices given below: high record of $ per barrel for fresh and $0,166 per pound for dried apples in the peace year 1919. The variations in the quantity, value, and average price in the export trade from month to month during 1919 are shown in the following table: Page 17 monthly export price for the year, the highest, $0,216 per pound, occur- ring in September, when the exports dropped to 561,773 pounds, valued at $121,405. The movement of green or ripe apples to foreign markets was heaviest during the first and last quarters of 1919. With regard to quantity and total value, the February exports of 493,996 barrels, invoiced at $3,792,361, January February March April May June July August September October November .. .*. December Total. Dried 2,306,575 1,208,392 2,833,155 7,623,924 1,178,257 2,809,427 1,562,188 438,025 561,773 277,648 1,815,234 2,084,761 24,704,359 i 346,331 182,193 428,737 1,073,391 219,095 532,470 299
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