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the fall and winter. Home-grown stock materially influences the 
market during the late summer. Onions are on the market the year 
around, with supplies averaging about 150 carloads per month. 
The demand is slightty more active in cold weather, but the sup- 
ply is fairly uniform throughout the year. Practically all stock 
except that grown near by is sold at the market house. The home- 
grown stock is sold by commission merchants on Dock Street and in 
the Callowhill Street sections. The chain-store grocery companies 
handle over 15 per cent of the total receipts and are a considerable 
factor in the market. 
Baltimore. — Practically all stock received in Baltimore during the 
fall, winter, and spring arrives by rail at the Bolton railroad sta- 
tion. During the Virginia shipping season (July and August) all 
stock arrives by boat and is sold on the piers by receivers to all 
Fig. 24. — Car-lot unloads at Philadelphia exceed those at Chicago in an average 
season, but are mainly from different sources 
classes of dealers. Several receivers specialize in potatoes and 
onions. Considerable stock is bought outright from the shipper. 
Eeceivers sell to jobbers partly direct from the cars and partly by 
samples displayed on the sales platform in lots of 25 packages and 
over. The jobber then hauls them to his store for resale. 
Washington, D. C. — The Washington market is supplied in season 
principally with the northern type of onions, preferably the yellow 
varieties, from New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and the 
Middle West; the southern Bermuda yellow varieties; and a few 
Crystal Wax from California and Texas. Australian Browns are 
acceptable and some imported Spanish Valencias are received. Few 
onions except the green bunched stock are grown locally. Car lots 
are received by a few large dealers and distribution is mostly in 
small lots to retailers. . 
Pittsburgh.— An onion market of the first rank is Pittsburgh, 
which draws on practically every onion-shipping State for its sup- 
ply, although 21 per cent comes from Texas and 9 per cent from 
