28 BULLETIN 1412, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Tabue 3.— Unloads of lettuce in 21 cities, Inj months, 1924 1 
City 
Jan. 
Feb. 
Mar. 
Apr. 
May 
June 
July 
Aug. 
Sept. 
Oct. 
Nov. 
Dec. 
Total 
Car 
lots 
17 
80 
100 
272 
78 
82 
37 
73 
42 
127 
48 
715 
16 
273 
139 
42 
95 
15 

94 
41 
10 
66 
87 
209 
54 
70 
41 
65 
55 
181 
36 
602 
14 
211 
96 
52 
86 
19 

71 
35 
15 
31 
85 
270 
49 
77 
32 
81 
49 
154 
35 
541 
8 
201 
85 
62 
82 
20 

74 
38 
14 
45 
64 
343 
47 
69 
40 
79 
34 
29 
28 
600 
9 
222 
102 
46 
71 
24 

29 
20 
16 
94 
107 
416 
51 
91 
48 
89 
33 
32 
49 
1,131 
31 
339 
130 
21 
37 
18 
11 
9 
34 
11 
7 
50 
235 
26 
57 
30 
81 
20 
191 
30 
175 
11 
105 
63 

15 
12 
6 
2 
10 
11 
49 
30 
230 
29 
39 
20 
42 
40 
144 
15 
454 
11 
127 
22 

57 
7 
4 

19 
11 
43 
60 
261 
24 
42 
65 
32 
20 
112 
15 
917 
10 
162 
24 

50 
6 
6 

30 
17 
48 
71 
216 
44 
39 
78 
36 
36 
107 
10 
532 
11 
153 
26 

61 
4 
7 
2 
33 
14 
42 
22 
246 
29 
41 
21 
46 
41 
' 85 
26 
320 
16 
128 
44 

45 
12 
3 

26 
21 
44 
71 
330 
55 
63 
27 
57 
49 
19 
28 
378 
23 
145 
54 
25 
71 
13 
7 

26 
18 
70 
89 
303 
78 
83 
39 
76 
38 
20 
37 
768 
21 
253 
91 
46 
105 
21 
12 
27 
44 
175 
Baltimore 
619 
836 
Chicago 
Cincinnati 
3, 331 
564 
753 
. 478 
Detroit 
757 
457 
1,201 
Minneapolis 
New York _ . 
357 
7, 133 
181 
Philadelphia 
Pittsburgh . . 
2,319 
876 
Portland, Ore 
St. Louis 
St. Paul 
Salt Lake City 
S an Francisco 
Washington 
294 
775 
171 
56 
308 
356 
i Incudes boat receipts reduced to car-lot equivalents. 
[Car lots including- boat receipts reduced to car-lot equivalents] 
City 
Ariz. 
Calif. 
Colo. 
Fla. 
Idaho 
N.J. 
N.Y. 
N. C. 
S.C. 
Wash. 
Misc. 
Total 
16 
27 
29 
170 
90 
54 
41 
7 
33 
134 
215 
558 
2,266 
319 
580 
228 
570 
302 
1,200 
275 
2,434 
121 
1,076 
596 
263 
431 
135 
49 
308 
160 
19 
7 
2 
76 
42 
43 
170 
63 
71 
1 
16 
20 
23 
10 
12 
"""85" 
41 
10 
15 
3 
§" 
1 
4 
1 
86 
22 
8 
16 
35 
12 
5 
1 
5 
254 
5 
12 
14 
49 
28 
"""87" 
3 
153 
17 
29 
9 
6 
9 
175 
4 
1 
2 
158 
167 
314 
54 
21 
6 
7 
15 
22 
619 
836 
3,331 
564 
3 
753 
478 
24 
2 
757 
457 
1,201 
357 
2 
235 
11 
65 
78 
25 
43 
6 
~i~242~ 
"""388" 
16 
27 
24 
9 
22 
26 
3 
15 
2 
1 
...... 
1 
2,155 
31 
14 
11 
18 
14 
2 
6 
18 
5 
111 
6 
50 
66 
1 
55 
4 
4 
538 
359 
7, 133 
181 
46 
461 
63 
103 
2 
80 
3 
2,319 
Pittsburgh ... 
876 
294 
61 
6 
2 
42 
122 
775 
St. Paul 
171 
Salt Lake City . 
56 
308 
Washington 
5 
2 
39 
1 
4 
101 
7 
7 
1 
29 
356 
Total 
937 
12, 220 
646 
1,894 
315 
58 
3,643 
666 
486 
488 
644 
21, 997 
Unloads as a percent- 
age of total car-lot 
shipments 
46.3 
66.2 
62.3 
85.8 
59.2 
13.9 
98.5 
933 
0) 
72.3 
71.3 
1 Some discrepancies in the reports cause unloads of South Carolina lettuce to exceed shipments reported 
from that State. 
Development of the small cities of 25,000 to 50,000 inhabitants 
into car-lot markets for lettuce would no doubt go a long way toward 
widening distribution and increasing consumption. Growers and 
shippers doubtless would find outlets for greater tonnage by exert- 
ing every effort to open up as many as possible of these smaller 
.markets to direct shipments instead of shipping habitually to a few 
of the large distributing centers. 
