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BULLETIN 1242, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
mild coast climate favors production of second-crop winter cabbage 
which competes with Florida cabbage early in the season, but the 
bulk of the average production of about 2,000 cars is from the 
Meggett- Charleston section in late spring and early summer. Most 
of the shipments are handled by two cooperative associations. 
MAIN CROP SECTIONS. 
WESTERN AND CENTRAL NEW YORK. 
The largest cabbage shipping section, early or late, is that of western 
and central New York. The State supplies nearly one-fourth of the 
total car-lot movement of cabbage, over half of the main-crop ship- 
ments from principal main-crop States, and more than half of the 
late shipments from storage. (Fig. 5.) 
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Domestic cabbage is produced extensively for the fall and winter 
market and for kraut. The heaviest shipping points are in Ontario 
County around Geneva, Hall, Phelps, Aloquin, and Seneca Castle. 
Seneca Castle is the heaviest loading station in the State as well as an 
important kraut-making center. In Onondaga County, around 
Marcellus and Tully, and along the Falls branch of the "New York 
Central Railroad are found the other heaviest shipping sections. 
Among the leading varieties are the Enkhuizen, Copenhagen, and the 
Flat Dutch. Red cabbage is produced in a Limited way in the domes- 
tic cabbage section and in Chenango and Madison Counties. Con- 
siderable Savoy cabbage is grown on Long Island, whieh is. however, 
mainly a producer of early and intermediate cabbage usually classed 
as home grown. 
Cabbage of the Danish type, which supplies the winter market from 
storage, is more important commercially than the domestic product, 
It is grown chiefly in Cortland, Onondaga, Cayuga, Chenango, and 
Madison Counties, with important stations al Cortland and Sher- 
burne. Production of Danish cabbage is less centralized, but is 
important in Seneca, Wayne, and Ontario, and west of Rochester in 
Monroe, Orleans, and Niagara Counties. 
