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car of imported Spanish onions is received. Most stock is dis- 
tributed through commission merchants and thence through the 
usual trade channels to the consumer. 
SOUTHERN MARKETS 
Atlanta.— ; Like other cities of the Southeast, Atlanta receives 
onions from most of the shipping States. Home-grown stock sup- 
plies the market in midsummer and a few Spanish onions are re- 
ceived. Most sales of wholesale lots (5 to 50 packages) are to job- 
bers at the broker's or receiver's warehouses. Many small lots are 
shipped to towns within 100 to 150 miles. 
New Orleans. — Onions are handled by practically all of the local 
jobbers in New Orleans. Sales to them are usually made f. o. b. 
usual terms on the 100-pound basis and are mostly confirmed as 
U. S. No. 1 grade. The railroads unload shipments on shed plat- 
forms, from which the stock is jobbed out to the trade. Conse- 
quently only a small percentage of the onions received is taken to 
the produce district, which is from 6 to 10 blocks from the unload- 
ing sheds. Probably the main feature of this market is the home- 
grown crop. 
WESTERN MARKETS 
Los Angeles. — The Stockton district in central California, home- 
grown sources, Riverside County, and Utah, in the order named, 
supply the Los Angeles market. Early or Bermuda onions come 
from the Coachella and Imperial Valleys except a few cars from 
Texas when the crop in that State is more than two weeks earlier 
than California. Bermuda-t}q:>e onions are usually sold by car-lot 
receivers or brokers to jobbers in 50 to 100 crate lots. Late onions 
are mostly sold to jobbers in carload lots. Only when the market is 
dull and sales slow will receivers break cars, but under such condi- 
tions lots as small as 50 sacks will be sold. Jobbers sell to retailers 
in lots of 1 to 5 sacks or crates. 
Denver. — About half the supply used in Denver comes from Colo- 
rado, possibly 25 per cent being raised nearby and the remainder 
coming partly from the Greeley section but chiefly from the Western 
Slope. These onions fill the market for about eight months; then 
Denver draws on Texas, California, Washington, Utah, Idaho, and 
Oregon. Six cars of imported Spanish onions were handled in 1923. 
The stock from other States is received in 100-pound bags or stand- 
ard crates, but Colorado onions are received in various-sized sacks 
and sold " sacked per 100' pounds." Many of the onions are trucked 
into Denver and sold by the growers to jobbers, wholesalers, and 
retailers. No dealers specialize in onions, although two concerns 
handle potatoes and onions only. 
NORTHWESTERN MARKETS 
Portland. — Onions from Texas, California, Washington, Oregon, 
and occasionally from Australia are consumed in Portland, Oreg. 
Most stock shipped in from other States moves in carloads made up by 
brokers, each of several wholesalers having ordered a definite number 
