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inches of ventilating space between the bins from top to bottom. In 
some houses the bins are much wider, and the cabbage is stored on 
slatted racks which fit into the bins, as shown in Figure 17. From 
one to four layers of heads are placed on each rack and an air space 
of a few inches is left between the top layer of cabbages and the rack 
above. These racks aid greatly in ventilation but add to the expense 
of handling and reduce the storage capacity. However, in most 
cases the advantages of this method are neld to justify the expense. 
The rack system of storage is also used to some extent by growers. 
Somewhat fuller details of miscellaneous storage methods and 
practices will be found in Farmers' Bulletin 433, Cabbage. 
Nearly 95 per cent of all commercially stored cabbage (Table 6) 
comes from New York and Wisconsin, although Pennsylvania, 
Michigan, Minnesota, and Colorado put a few cars into storage. 
Only the Danish type can be stored successfully. Since it is unusual 
to ship from the field after hard freezing weather sets in, it is perhaps 
reasonable to estimate that shipments from New York and Wiscon- 
Fig. 17. — Storage house interior, showing cabbage piled on racks with spaces for air circulation. 
sin after November 1 are out of storage of some sort. On this basis 
about two-thirds of the New York crop and over two-fifths of the 
Wisconsin crop is stored for short or long periods. Approximately 
8,000 cars out of a total of 15,000 have been shipped annually from 
New York, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, ana Pennsylvania after 
November 1, during 1918-1923. About 7,500 cars were from New 
York and Wisconsin. 
Distribution from storage. — Cabbage is not quickly perishable on 
removal from storage in winter. Accordingly a considerable supply 
is kept on hand by dealers. The only definite information on the 
quantity carried in this way is based on a special survey made by the 
Department of Agriculture in 1918, from which it appeared that on 
January 1, the retailers held 21 per cent, the equivalent of over 600 
carloads out of about 3,000 cars reported in commercial storage 
houses, and held by all classes of dealers, stocks in farm storage not 
included. This large retail stock tends to make the winter cabbage 
market less quickly responsive to changes in the wholesale supply. 
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