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BULLETIN" 1325, U, 8. DEPABTMENT OF AGKICULTURE 
I\ew York, about one-seventh from Texas, one-eighth from Ohio, 
and one-tenth from Massachusetts. California supplies one-twen- 
tieth. Indiana furnishes one-tenih. 
Home-grown receipts are estimated at about 5 to 7 per cent of all 
arrivals, fairly large supplies in less than carlots coming from Long 
Island and Xew Jersey. Very few domestic onions, probably about 
5 per cent of all receipts, are shipped out of the city. 
Imports are an important factor. They are received from Spain, 
Egypt. Italy, Holland, Australia, South America, and the West 
Indies. They constitute over 6 per cent of all receipts unloaded for 
local consumption. 
AVERAGE CAR. LOTS OF ONIONS UNLOADED MONTHLY AT NEW YORK BY 
PRINCIPAL SOURCES OF SUPPLY. 1918 TO 1922 
500 
400 
300 
200 
100 
JAN. FEB. MAR. APR. MAY JUNE JULY AUG. SEPT. OCT. NOV. DEC. 
^ vports ~~\'' : H ''-'' KSfl Texas |jv'.v^ '-- -" "~J Other 
New Jersey g$&d Kentucky [■'. "■] Virginia 
Fig. 20. — Peaks jrf New York's onion supply include many southern, imported, 
and State onions 
Til Ca/ifornia fcX-^vl Massachusetts 
The city receives its supplies almost entirely on the piers of the 
New York Central, Erie, and Pennsylvania Eailroads, and of the 
Morgan and Mallory steamship lines. A little over half the Texas 
onions received at Xew York come by boat from Galveston and are 
unloaded and sold on the pier. A few early onions are received in 
Jersey City to be trucked over to the stores in the TTashington 
Street market. Xew Jersey stock is trucked directly to receivers' 
stores. 
In Xew York City onions are handled in practically the same way 
as other fruits and vegetables, the first receivers selling to jobbers 
and the jobbers selling to the retailers. Four or five large receivers 
specialize in handling onions and three or four large jobbers handle 
practically nothing but onions. These dealers have stocks on hand 
