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Figure 3.—Federal-State inspector inspects potatoes in a partly loaded car at a North 
Dakota loading station. 
winter months, follow the crops northward during the late spring and summer 
months and return to the South in the fall for citrus and winter vegetable 
inspection. In this manner they secure almost year-round employment. No 
small tribute is due these Federal-State inspectors, who, as they follow the crops 
and move from place to place year after year, do so at real sacrifice to family life. 
The extent of the organization of the shipping-point inspection service within 
a State is largely dependent upon the volume of work to be handled. In the 
more important producing States of California, Florida, Texas, Washington, 
Oregon, Idaho, Colorado, and some others, where large shipments of varying 
