22 BULLETIN 1283, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
15 per cent for 2 years, 12 per cent for 3 years, 6 per cent for 4 years, 
and 15 per cent for 5 years or more. Evidently there is a large 
undeveloped market among towns of less than 25,000 population. 
Although Bermuda onions are grown in the South, the distribu- 
tion is primarily to the North. The per capita supply in 1920 was 
nearly twice as heavy for the Northern as for the Southern States 
and if final destinations were obtainable, the proportion would prob- 
ably be greater, for many cars are here recorded as destined to points 
in Texas or Louisiana which eventually reach northern points. 
For the entire United States, the per capita supply of all- American- 
grown Bermuda onions was 1.30 pounds in 1920. The relation of 
Bermuda primary distribution to population by sections and per 
capita supply is shown in Table 5. 
Domestic Bermuda onions have been shipped directly to points 
in every State except Nevada, according to railroad reports, to most 
of the Provinces of Canada, and to Cuba. They have been shipped 
directly to 480 different cities in the United States and 29 in Canada; 
but the distribution has been more or less sporadic to the smaller 
places, because shippers were afraid that other shipments might 
arrive at the same time and glut the local market. The leading 
markets seem safer when a shipper must guess what the other man 
is likely to do. 
The United States Department of Agriculture has maintained an 
office in the Texas producing territory each season to publish daily 
the destinations and diversions as given by railroad officials. This 
information enables a grower or shipper to know most of the move- 
ment far enough ahead so that he can divert his car when the original 
destination would apparently receive too great a supply. A still more 
effective method has been in operation whereby the principal shippers 
meet daily in the office of the representative of the department and 
each man present states the number of cars he intends to ship and 
their destination. The expected destinations are then entered on 
a blackboard and resulting changes made by the shijDpers are entered. 
METHODS OF SALE 
Several methods of marketing are open to the Texas grower, de- 
pending upon his acreage, his financial strength, his relations with 
the trade locally and at the terminal markets, his knowledge of 
market conditions, and his judgment as to the method most profit- 
able at a given time. 
SALE THROUGH DEALER WHO HAS FINANCED THE GROWER 
1. The dealer advances about $40 an acre to the grower to aid 
him in raising the crop, under an agreement by which the dealer is 
given the refusal of every car at the market price on the day loaded. 
The dealer takes the amount of the loan out of the first cars mar- 
keted. Interest may or may not be charged, depending upon the 
season and locality. In addition, the dealer takes either a given 
amount per crate or a commission on the total sales for his services 
in financing and selling the crop. 
2. In a similar arrangement, the farmer grows and harvests the 
crop, the denier finances and sells it and the net receipts are divided 
between them in an agreed ratio. 
