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BULLETIN 1242. XJ. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
The jobbers divide the stock purchased from the receiver, selling 
it in lots of 5 to 10 packages to retail provision stores, grocers, and 
peddlers. 
Small wholesalers. — In many of the large cities there are wholesalers 
who buy usually from jobbers, sometimes from primary receivers, 
and sell in lots of one or more packages to retailers, peddlers, and 
large consumers. They often supply extra service, re-sort and repack 
the stock if desired, supervise its delivery, and perhaps extend credit 
to regular customers. They assume whatever cost, shrinkage, or loss 
may result from these services, and charge more than the usual job- 
bing prices. 
Early and late cabbage. — The city marketing routes of early and 
late cabbage have points of difference. They often arrive at different 
railroad or boat terminals and are handled by different sets of receiv- 
ers, one group making a specialty of southern vegetables and the 
Fig. 28.— Barrels of cabbage on retail market. Ueads are not solid and sales are slow. 
other handling mostly northern crops, like potatoes, cabbage, onions. 
and turnips. Receivers of early cabbage frequently have agents 
or branch offices at shipping points. They often act as selling agents 
for growers' associations. 
In the large eastern cities, one or two firms may handle all the 
local consignments of large shipping associations, like those oi' South 
Carolina and Virginia. The jobbers and retailers handling early 
cabbage are much the same as for late cabbage, although many 
jobbers of late cabbage handle very little early stock. The conditions 
in eastern markets are much alike. Between eastern and mid- 
western markets a striking difference appears. Considerable early 
cabbage reaches mid-western terminal centers in bulk instead of in 
crates and is sacked, crated, or barreled by the city dealers in the 
same manner as the late cabbage. (Fig. 28. 
Late or main-crop cabbage everywhere is shipped mostly in bulk 
and i> handled generally by receivers who specialize in staple vege- 
table. 
