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S. DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE 
MARKET INFORMATION 
Crop and market information is sent out by the Department of 
Agriculture at Washington and from its market stations at New 
York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Cin- 
cinnati, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Denver, Fort Worth,* 
Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, and Atlanta, 
and during the active local shipping season from temporary field 
stations at Laredo, Tex.; Grand Rapids, Mich.; and Rochester, 
N. Y. News from several other shipping points is collected and 
given out by the nearest market stations. The information, gathered 
by market reporters (fig. 31) is issued in daily or semiweekly market 
reports, weekly reviews and summaries, semimonthly crop notes, 
Fig. 
11. — Market 
■eporters base wholesale price quotations on 
jobbing lots 
ly sales of 
monthly crop estimates, and estimates of stock in storage. Detailed 
reports of car-lot shipments and of arrivals at city markets are in- 
cluded in the daily market reports from Washington, in the weekly 
carlot summary, and in Crops and Markets, a weekly periodical is- 
sued from Washington by the Department of Agriculture. These 
various publications, kept in convenient form for reference and com- 
parison, enable the grower, shipper, and dealer to keep in touch with 
developments in the onion market. 
For the early crop the important news is that which concerns the 
yield, earliness, and condition of the Texas crop ; the volume of ship- 
ments; the price of commercial grade Yellow Bermudas at such 
markets as New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Kansas City, and St. 
Louis ; the supply and price of old storage stock, and the expected ar- 
rivals of foreign onions. 
