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BULLETIN 401, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
past season, some of them receiving several cars. On the other hand, 
40 markets which received straight cars in 1914 received none in 1915. 
During the 1915 season markets west of the Rockies as a rule largely 
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Fig. 1.— Chart showing the daily shipments of maskmelons, 1913, 1914, and 1915. 
increased their consumption of Imperial Valley muskmelpns, while 
many of the eastern markets decreased their consumption. 
Unquestionably many towns which have not handled muskmelons 
by full carloads in the past could be developed to do so. Cities which 
