BULLETIN 1283, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Texas Bermudas usually begin moving to market about the first 
of April and reach highest volume near the close of the month. By 
the end of May or early June they are mostly out of the production 
areas. The California movement takes place principally during May 
and early June. Xew stock other than from California is a very 
minor factor until after most of the Texas crop is marketed, although 
a few cars move from Louisiana and other southern areas during 
May and June. The Texas crop practically controls the market 
during April, May, and June. 
SEASONAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE TEXAS BERMUDA MOVEMENT 
PERCENTAGE 
OF SEASONAL 
MOVEMENT 
90 
80 
70 
60 
50 
40 
30 
20 
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/ Accumulative 
i Percentage Movement 
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Percentage of 
Movement Each Week 
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4 5 6 7 8 
WEEKS OF MOVEMENT 
10 
12 
Fig. 4. — Practically all Bermuda onions are marketed within a space of 12 weeks in the spring. Three- 
fourths are marketed between the third and seventh week, inclusive. The chart shows the percentage 
of the crop that will usually have been marketed at the end of any given week 
In every year studied except 1920 an initial heavy shipment has 
been followed by a sharp decline early in May and another peak ship- 
ment thereafter. This decline has been partly due to the rains which 
have occurred at that tune, and partly the result of the dwindling of 
the output from the Laredo and lower valley sections before the 
heaviest shipments from the upper counties and California have 
begun. In 1920, when there were no heavy rains to interrupt 
harvesting, Texas shipments reached the highest in eight years. 
The heaviest Bermuda shipment from California usually occurs 
late in May at about the same time as the second heavy movement 
from Texas. 
Exceptional shipments of Bermudas have occurred as early as 
March 1 and as late as September 28. A striking characteristic of 
the Bermuda season during the four years, 1916 to 1919 inclusive, 
was the successive retarding of the first shipments of the season. 
'Sec Table 3.) The earliest carlot shipments (luring these years from 
Texas were March 1, 1916, March 17. 1917, April 1, 1918," and April 
8, 1919. The increasing tardiness seems to have been due principally 
