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BULLETIN 1283, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
2. The Tipper counties section, including the counties of Maverick, 
Zavalla, Dimit, LaSalle, Frio, and contiguous counties. Nearly half 
of the Texas shipments come from this section. 
3. The lower Rio Grande Valley and Gulf coast section, including 
Hidalgo and Cameron Counties at the extreme lower tip of Texas. 
A few cars are usually shipped from various other points in Texas, 
especially southern Texas and the vicinity of Corpus Christi. A map 
of the Texas producing area is shown in Figure 2. Table 2 shows in 
detail the shipping points and the changes from year to year. 
Table 2. — Carlot shipments of Texas Bermuda onions, by stations 
1919 
1920 
1921 
1922 
1919 
1920 
1921 
1922 
Total . 
2,835 
5,002 
4,126 
4,286 
12 
0) 
0) 
Alamo ... 
143 
689 
6 
733 
1 
519 
0) 
0) 
11 
378 
10 
0) 
109 
166 
283 
96 
91 
1 
13 
645 
4 
395 
8 
309 
4 
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315 
391 
141 
46 
1 
Lyford. ..... 
2 
0) 
25 
77 
3 
C 1 ) 
566 
2 
Mercedes. . 
Big Wells 
283 
79 
85 
5 
36 
619 
0) 
0) 
31 
171 
McAllen 
5 
7 
17 
Brundage ... 
McKinney 
2 
Byrd 
Millett 
2 
33 
4 
260 
1 
0) 
3 
8 
9 
Mission 
17 
Carrizo Springs. __ _ 
Moore.. 
Charlotte.. 
New California 
6 
0) 
40 
21 
102 
196 
70 
37 
2 
6 
22 
8 
0) 
155 
229 
176 
142 
118 
11 
65 
55 
0) 
12 
63 
13 
(■) 
1 
15 
52 
1,286 
3 
Pearsall 
54 
214 
28 
3 
17 
113 
67 
Cotulla. 
Pharr 
8 
Crvstal City 
Pleasanton 
1 
Derby . 
Poteet 
12 
2 
Dilley 
3 
23 
7 
23 
0) 
44 
0) 
90 
Richondo ^ 
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Edinburg 
Robstown... 
1 
EncinaL . . . 
3 
1 
63 
4 
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Rockdale... 
1 
24 
98 
5 
70 
2 
0) 
Icefield . 
36 
12 
Kenedy . .. 
Santa Maria 
Sharyland. _ 
18 
0) 
14 
979 
24 
1,315 
28 
1,621 
2 
Laredo 
Unclassified 
89 
106 
89 
1 Nonagency station, billing accomplished at nearest billing station. 
The above tabulation also includes shipments from a number of 
nonagency stations which are not listed, the shipments being in- 
cluded with those reported for agency stations. 
The California-Bermuda growing area is located principally in the 
Coachella Valley, between the San Bernardino and the San Jacinto 
mountains in Riverside County, although a few are grown in the 
Imperial Valley in Imperial County. The principal shipping points 
are Coachella, Thermal, Indio, Brawley, and Imperial. 
The Louisiana Bermuda district is small and located principally 
in Lafourche Parish. Most of the Louisiana onions are Creoles, a 
type differing from the Bermuda. 
Nearly all of the Bermuda production in both Texas and Cali- 
fornia occurs in a hot, dry climate, under irrigation, where cheap 
labor is available. In the Laredo section irrigating is done by means 
of the individual power plants of each grower. Force pumps raise 
the water from the Rio Grande and send it in huge flumes to the 
fields or to reservoirs on the hillsides whence ditches conduct the 
water to the fields. In the lower Rio Grande Valley larger irrigation 
projects are the rule. Artesian wells and the Nueces and Frio Rivers 
