10 BULLETIN L206, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table 4. — Car-lot shipments of sweet potatoes, by States of origin, crop year 19 
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1,697 
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325 
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255 
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172 
12 
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74 
111 
17 
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12 
169 
7 
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35 
17 
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37 
13 
179 
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2,215 
1,728 
1 291 
881 
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5 113 
North Carolina 
1,014 
137 
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32 
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1 349 
Florida . 
105 
65 
151 
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119 
27 
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77 
112 
27 
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201 
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223 
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112 
83 
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3 
75 
41 
8 
106 
20 
8 
52 
6 
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173 
10 
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1,575 
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617 
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578 
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2,933 
3,405 
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1,526 
1,531 
1,036 
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Includes 13 cars iii Julv, 
NORTHEASTERN CAR-LOT MOVEMENT. 
The peak movement from the northeastern section occurs in Septem- 
ber and October, after which there is a constant decrease, month by 
month, until t he end of the season. Virginia begins shipping in August, 
and during September, October, and November markets practically 
its entire commercial crop, the monthly shipments in this period 
ranging from 1.000 to over 2.000 cars. In December and January 
the volume of shipments drops to about 100 cars a month and during 
the remainder of the season they are comparatively unimportant. 
Shipments from Virginia constitute half of the total car-lot movement 
for the first six months of the shipping season. Its movement each 
year exceeds 5,000 cars, which is Larger than the combined shipments 
from the 1 1 Southern States. Ninety per cent or more of this move- 
ment originates in the Eastern-Shore section. Beginning in August 
the New Jersey crop is marketed throughout the season, the heaviest 
movement being from November to March, inclusive. The move- 
ment from Maryland is also distributed rather evenly throughout 
the season, bul the period of heaviest shipments begins earlier in the 
season. Delaware, which stores more stock than the other three States 
combined, -hip- few cars until after the heavy Virginia movement is 
over. The hulk of its crop is marketed over the live-months' period 
from December to April. 
SOUTHERN CAR-LOT MOVEMENT. 
The early shipments from the South are made up of the Triumph 
variety from Alabama, the Yellow Jersey from North Carolina, and 
a few cars from small districts in other States which grow limited 
quantities of dry-fleshed varieties for the early market in the North 
and East. Florida is rapidly increasing iis acreage of Jersey 
Ivantage in market- 
type stock, and other sections, which are at a dii 
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