MARKETING OF BERMUDA ONIONS 
9 
The heaviest weekly shipment of the eight years, 1,225-cars, occurred 
the week ended May 13,^920. The usual peak has been about 700 
cars. The heaviest day's shipment from Texas was on May 6, 1920, 
209 cars. One hundred cars a day usually constitutes a good day's 
shipment. The heaviest annual movement of the eight years 
occurred in 1917. Nearly 6,000 cars were shipped, over twice the 
number that moved in 1923, the year of smallest production. Cali- 
fornia shipments have become much more important since 1919, the 
heaviest movement occurring in 1922. 
Shipments of Bermudas were heavy in 1917 and 1920 primarily 
because of a high yield per acre, in turn because of weather conditions. 
They were low in 1919 and 1921 principally because of a reduced 
acreage. In 1919 the yield per acre was above the average, but the 
greatly reduced acreage induced by the low prices of the year before 
contracted shipments to the lowest point of the period. The present 
tendency is for every grower to plant about the same proportion of 
his acreage to Bermudas year after year. In 1922 acreage was in- 
creased. In 1923 the acreage was slightly increased but the very 
great reduction in yield per acre of merchantable stock so reduced 
shipments that the Bermuda movement was smaller than that of any 
year except 1919. 
DISTRIBUTION OF SHIPMENTS 
Table 4 shows the distribution of Texas onion shipments, sum- 
marized by States and geographical divisions. Nearly 80 per cent 
of Texas carlot shipments are finally destined to points within the 
territory east of the Mississippi and north of the Potomac River, a 
territory which embraces only 48 per cent of the population of the 
United States according to the 1920 census. The concentration of 
shipments within this area is graphically shown in Figure 5. The 
first six cities listed consume more than half of the Texas shipments. 
Table 4. — Primary distribution of Bermuda-onion shipments (carloads), by geo- 
graphical sections, 1915-1922 
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