4 BULLETIN 1242, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
10,000 carloads, or approximately one-seventh of the crop: (3) 
that which is known as home grown, that is. cabbage that is sold in 
the local markets and delivered by wagon or truck from the farms, 
but does not appear in the report of car lot shipments. Home growns 
probably average one-third or more of the total commercial crop. 
In addition to the commercial supply a comparatively largo part of 
the total production of cabbage is consumed on the farms or consists 
of culls, waste, and unmarketable cabbage which does not leave the 
farm. The quantity of cabbage consumed on the farms and of home- 
growns can not be determined with any degree of accuracy. It has 
been estimated that from 5 to 25 per cent of the cabbage supply of 
the great cities is home grown, but the proportion varies greatly in 
the different markets. Of course, many small markets are supplied 
with a very large proportion of near-by stock. 
THE CAR LOT SUPPLY. 
The proportion of the estimated crop shipped as car lots has 
varied in recent years from considerably less than half to nearly 
three-fifths of the total estimated production, but averages somewhat 
less than half. The variation in production and in proportion 
shipped is much greater for the early crop. In years of extremely 
heavy production in sections remote from the principal consuming 
markets, such as in Florida, Texas, California, and Colorado, much 
of the available supply may fail to find a profitable market. In 
years of light production, nearly all the marketable stock is shipped. 
Production of late cabbage is less variable. An extreme variation 
of 6,000 cars between the smallest and the greatest of the early crop 
shipments compared with 4,500 cars variation in the late crop occurred 
during the five seasons 1918 to 1923, exclusive of the very short 
crop of 1919. 
PRINCIPAL COMMERCIAL PRODUCING REGIONS. 
Florida, Texas, South Carolina, Virginia, and California, in the 
order mentioned, produce about five-sixths of the early cabbage 
shipments and one-third of the total commercial car lot crop. Almost 
three-fourths of the late cabbage and nearly all the storage stock 
shipped after December 1 come from New York and Wisconsin. 
A number of States may be classed as intermediate (see Table 3 , 
shipments being made partly in the early season and partly during 
the Late months. In market usage there is no intermediate class, 
but the product of these States is reckoned as early or late according 
to time of arrival and the type of cabbage shipped. None of these 
States ship more than a lew hundred cars yearly, although New 
Jersey, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and others supply large addi- 
tional quantities for the local market or for kraut manufacture. 
Commercial cabbage regions by States and counties are shown 
in Figure 3 page 5. Car lot shipments for five years, classified 
according to the active market seasons, and other details are shown 
in Tables 3, 4, and 5. 
A general description of several leading and representative early 
and late commercial cabbage sections is given in the following pages. 
Methods of marketing in the various sections are included in the 
subsequenl descriptions of financing, harvesting, packing, selling, 
transportation, and market distribution. 
