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bulk and packing in sacks or other packages for delivery to the re- 
tailer. The receiver charges about $2 per ton for sacking and $5 for 
sacking and delivery in addition to profit or commission. 
St. Louis, like other mid-western markets, receives most of its 
cabbage in bulk. The dozen or more general produce dealers handle 
both early and late cabbage, two of them for kraut making. Most 
of the cabbage supply is bought from country shippers or their local 
representatives. Commission sales are usually on a 10 per cent 
basis or on a per-car basis of $20. 
A feature of the Kansas City market is the use of 150-pound crates 
in which the car-lot receivers put up the bulk cabbage, both early 
and late: Almost the only large supply that arrives crated is the 
California cabbage, which comes mostly in 80-pound crates. The 
crates supplied by the receivers are returnable. 
From the car-lot receiver, the cabbage goes to jobbers in large lots 
or to wholesalers in small lots. Generally there is a price difference of 
25 to 50 cents per 100 pounds between large and small lot sales. 
From the jobber the cabbage goes to the wholesaler and from the 
wholesaler to the retailer. In case the retailer does not desire an 
entire crate, the cabbage is sacked. Should the retailer take an 
entire crate, the crate is returnable to the wholesaler who, in turn, 
returns it to the jobber or car-lot receiver. 
The early cabbage season usually ends in June or July when the 
home-grown stock begins to arrive on the market in quantities large 
enough to supply the local demand. Possibly 10 to 15 per cent of the 
total quantity consumed is home grown. 
Kansas City supplies late cabbage in car lots to Oklahoma, Arkan- 
sas, and Kansas, southern Missouri, and early cabbage to Nebraska, 
Iowa, southern Illinois, and Missouri. 
Fort Worth is one of several rather important Texas cabbage mar- 
kets, which are much alike in their sources of supply and their methods 
of disposal. This city is a fairly large canning market and is also a 
distribution center of some importance for Texas cabbage. Fort 
Worth brokers sell car lots destined for Shreveport, Memphis, St. 
Louis, Kansas City, Denver, and sometimes beyond. There is also 
the usual trade in small lots sold by wholesalers to small dealers in 
adjacent towns. The early cabbage is from the Rio Grande Valley, 
and the late cabbage is from Colorado. There is also some home- 
grown cabbage for local use in summer and fall, which is sold by the 
growers to the wholesalers. Nearly all cabbage except that from 
California comes in bulk, is crated by the wholesaler and is usually 
sold by the 100 pounds. 
MARKET PREFERENCES AND SPECIALTIES. 
There is little evidence of choice between the various kinds of early 
cabbage in any of the large markets, although the more compact flat 
varieties are sometimes quoted at higher prices than the pointed, 
probably because of less waste during marketing. Late cabbage of 
the compact, long-keeping Danish type sells much higher than domes- 
tic, especially toward the end of the market season for domestic, 
which at that time has begun to deteriorate. 
Red cabbage and the curly Savoy type belong in the specialty class. 
The market for red cabbage is chiefly in the Middle West, while 
Savoy cabbage sells more freely in a few of the eastern cities. No- 
