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BULLETIN 1242, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
LOADING. 
The cabbage is brought to the car at the shipping point either by 
the grower or by the local packer and shipper. Here the buyer may 
Fig. 10. — Standard size crate of Colorado domestic cabbage. 
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Fig. 11.— Some handlers of early cabbage crate, the stock at trackside. 
supplement whatever grading and inspection was done in the field bj 
throwing out soft, undersized, immature or overripe, and damaged 
beads, or by the rejection of crates poorly graded and packed. (See 
fig. 1 1.) Buyers and cooperative associations which have no packing 
houses post their inspectors at loading points. Associations try to 
