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MONTHLY SHIPMENTS OF TURNIPS IN CARLOADS 
Co Average 8 years 1924, 1925 and 1926 
on eas Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. 
Minn, ... 428 82 ¢ I~ ~~ 17 70 162 76 86 
Wis. ... 187 ~ T 50 8 25 5 
Va. .... 30 
Md, .... 27 
N. J.... 65 
N, Y.... 71 
Wash. .. 225  4F 
Other .. 399 50 28 28 
U. S.... 1422 149 a0 9 47 
MONTHLY SHIPMENTS OF TURNIPS 
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The shipping season for turnips varies greatly in the dif- 
ferent states. For the United States as a whole, the month of 
lightest shipments is May, while the heaviest month is October. 
The trend of shipments is in a generally ascending and de- 
scending scale to and from these two months, respectively. 
Average annual shipments during the three years amounted 
to 1,432 cars, of which Minnesota furnished 428 cars, or 
nearly 30 per cent. Washington was second with 225 cars 
and Wisconsin, third, with 187 cars. Shipments from none 
of the other states amounted to so many as a hundred cars. 
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In addition to shipments of fresh vegetables in carload lots 
by specific commodities, large quantities are moved in mixed 
lots. This happens not only in those states that do not raise 
large quantities of vegetables, but also in states that are large 
shippers of vegetables. California, Texas, New Jersey, Colo- 
rado and Louisiana, in the order named, are the largest ship- 
pers of mixed vegetables, and originate over 67 per cent of the 
total movement for the United States. 
The shipments of mixed vegetables for the United States 
as a whole in 1924 amounted to 28,352 cars, while in 1926 
they amounted to 80,651 cars, an increase of 2,299 cars, or 
8.1 per cent. 
MONTHLY SHIPMENTS OF MIXED VEGETABLES 
IN CARLOADS 
Average 3 years 1924, 1925 and 1926 
Cg Teas Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dee. 
Calif, .. 4,750 503 422 437 874 422 318 265 228 210 812 590 674 
Tex. ... 4,789 496 935 1,127 1,199 511 63 80 2 wn 7 77 202 
N. Jo... 4,258 21 20 88 70 76 238 808 1,230 892 680 163 29 
Colo. ... 8,670 181 84 68 15 8 25 3816 849 1,269 672 178 5 
La. .... 8,060 235 843 548 608 532 246 22 8 2 18 165 340 
Fla. .... 1,941 408 224 228 8338 313 79 21 1 os 8 108 218 
Yo seen 1,603 108 59 82 204 247 378 123 60 46 49 78 174 
Miss. .. 1154 1 1 30 84 726 200 8 2  .. .. 
N. C.... 878 rT « 33 12 228 282 261 16 28 a3 
N. Y.... 768 74 65 36 8 8 6 24 117 185 124 
B. C.... 700 17 19 35 125 268 211 17 3 ve « 
mm, ..... 542 1 2 1 31 66 68 253 73 13 12 
Ohio ... 348 1 1 i .e ve 6 135 183 8 
Wash, .. 328 5 37 43 95 64 a7 1+ 
Ariz, ... 258 53 79 7 
Minn, .. 233 
Utah ... 170 
Kv. wre 140 
Ala. .., 128 
Md. .... 100 
Oreg. .... .74 ve. 2 2 1 
Mo. .... see 2222 2 . 
N. Mex. 58. ar ee en 1 ce 10 wm 1 
Other .. 462 20 18 14 24 10 65 86 aa 8 81 50 2 
U. 8.... 30,405 2,108 2,225 2,674 8,223 3,585 2,562 2,478 2,048 2,835 2,181 1,597 1,994 
egetables 
ment for the United States as a whole is fairly well balanced 
luring the year. Nevertheless, there are two periods of two 
nonths each when shipments are slightly heavier than the 
wverage, namely, April and May, and August and September; 
also one period, November and December, when shipments 
are slightly lighter than during the remainder of the year. 
The heavier movement in April appears to be due in large 
part to an increase in shipments from Texas, that of August 
«0 increased shipments from New Jersey, and that of Septem- 
ver to an increase in shipments from Colorado. The large ship- 
ments in May cannot be attributed to any individual state, but 
:0 a combination of fairly large movements from several 
states. The decreased movement in November and December 
is due to comparatively light shipments from nearly all of 
the states. 
Forty-six of the forty-eight states ship vegetables in mixed 
carloads, Rhode Island and West Virginia being the only ones 
for which shipments of this class are not recorded. 
MONTHLY SHIPMENTS OF MIXED VEGETABLES 
TINITED STATES 
‘Hundreds of cars 
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110 
There appears to be a fairly definite seasonal movement of 
mixed vegetables in carloads from each of the states. Owing 
to the diversification of these shipments, the monthly move- 
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