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BULLETIN 1325, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
The maps show State totals only. They do not show the individual 
station destinations within the States, and, being for one year only, 
they can not show the very significant changes in distribution which 
occur from year to year, partly due to the size of the crop, partly to 
transportation conditions, and partly to the state of the market. 
TEXAS 
Distribution of Texas onions for the season of 1922 is shown in 
Figure 16. Destinations of 4,118 cars numbered 223 towns and 
cities in 44 States and the District of Columbia, 4 Canadian Prov- 
inces, and Cuba. Large numbers of these cars were diverted from 
the original destinations and an attempt has been made to trace 
shipments beyond the main diversion points, of which Kansas City is 
the largest. It has not been possible, however, to establish final 
Fig. 16. — Texas onions go to practically every State, and are exported to Canada 
and Cuba 
destinations in all cases. At any rate, there are 223 points with a 
capacity for one or more carloads of Texas onions. The number of 
long shipments is astonishing: Boston, 2,350 miles distant, 227 ears; 
New York, 2,100 miles, 1,009 cars; Montreal, 2,500 miles, 9 cars. 
Freight charges from Laredo are the same to each of these cities. 
At least 101 cities received one or two carloads each and 43 cities 
three to five. Of the 223 destinations, 177 received 10 cars or less 
each. Only 27 cities are credited with more than 20 cars each and 
but 13 received 50 or more. The widest distribution was in Texas 
.andJNew York, with 17 and 16 carlot destinations, respectively. 
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 
Destinations of 1,044 cars of Bermuda onions from the Coachella 
and Imperial Valleys of California in 1922 numbered 55. These are 
not final destinations in all cases, as numerous cars are always recon- 
