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L^^HrSt L- i BRA R Y ^.^ UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRl^U^jyíá'^ STATISTICAL BULLETIN No. 3r 0. 8. íhfmnmMt f' Washington, D. C. î „October, 1931 CAR-LOT 'SfflPMENTS OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES FROM STATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES/or the CALENDAR YEARS 1928 AND 1929 Prepared by the BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS Far lal« by the Superintendent of Document». Washington. D. C Price 25 cmtf NAL DIGITIZING PROJECT MBP0000330 STATISTICAL BULLETIN SERIES The bulletins of the statistical series contain available statistics on one or more commodities, annual, monthly, or weekly, on production, movement from the farm, receipts at markets, reshipments, farm and market prices, exports, imports, production in foreign countries, and foreign market prices, for the current year, together with comparable data for earlier years. At the present time (September, 1931), statistical bul- letins have been issued as follows : 1. Cold-storage holdings. 2. Seed statistics. 3. Sheep, lamb, mutton, and wool statistics. 4. Gold-storage holdings. » 5. Horses, mules, and motor vehicles. 6. Grain futures; daily data. 7. Shipments and unloads of certain fruits and vegetables. 8. Carload shipments of fruits and melons. 9. Carload shipments of vegetables. 10. Statistics of potatoes and sweetpotatoes. 11. Hay and feed statistics. 12. Wheat and rye statistics. 13. Cold-storage holdings. 14. Prices of farm products received by producers, North Atlantic States. 15. Prices of farm products received by producers, North Central States. 16. Prices of farm products received by producers, South Atlantic and South Central States. 17. Prices of farm products received by producers^ Moun- tain and Pacific States. 18. Statistics of hogs, pork, and pork products. 19. Carload shipments of fruits and vegetables from stations in the United States. 20. Cattle, calves, beef, veal, hides, and skins statistics. 21. American forests and forest products. 22. Vegetable statistics. 23. Carload shipments and unloads of certain fruits and vegetables, 1924-1926. 24. Statistics of fats, oils, and oleaginous raw materials. 25. Dairy statistics. 26. Cold-storage holdings. 27. Car-lot shipments of fruits and vegetables from stations in the United States for the calendar years 1926 and 1927. 28. Corn statistics. 29. Statistics of oats, barley, and grain sorghums. 30. Car-lot shipments and unloads of important fruits and vegetables for the calendar years 1927 and 1928. 31. Wheat futures: Volume of trading, open commitments and prices. • 32. Stumpage and loß prices for the calendar year 1928. 33. Cold storage holdings. 34. Corn futures. 35. Car-lot shipments of fruits and vegetables from sta- tions in the United States for the calendar years 1928 and 1929. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE STATISTICAL BULLETIN NO. 35 WASHINGTON, D. C. OCTOBER, 1931 CAR-LOT SHIPMENTS OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES FROM STATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES FOR THE CALENDAR YEARS 1928 AND 1929 Prepared by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics * CONTENTS Page Page Introduction 1 Tables of shipments—Continued. Tables of shipments: Pears 5X Total United States by commodities Plums and prunes A4 Total commodities by States Primes, dried Approximate shipping season, fruits, by Strawberries. States --- Watermelons. Approjimate shipping season, vegetables, Asparagus Dy States Beans, snap.. Kail and estimated motor-track ship- Cabbage ments of certain fraits and vegetables Sarrots from specified States or areas auliflower... Apples Celery Apples, dried - Cucumbers- Cantaloupes - Eggplant 92 Cherries Lettuce 92 Cranberries Mixed vegetables -w.. Q5 Grapefmit Onions 101 Grapes Peas, green IOS Lemons _ Peppers.- .- -110 Melons, miscdlancmis Potatoes HI Mixed citrus fruits Spinach -,- 138 Mixed deciduous fruits Sweetpotatoes 140 Oranges Tomato:s 145 Peaches Turnips - 1^1 Peaches, dried INTRODUCTION Car-lot shipments of fruits and vegetables produced in the United States were greater in both 1928 and 1929 than in any preceding year. The shipments reported for 1928 were 1,072,951 cars, and in 1929 they increased to 1,074,069 cars. The total for the two years was nearly 95,000 oars greater than that of the preceding two years. The total movement of fruits and vegetables produced in the United States is much greater than the car-lot figures would indicate, as large quanti- ties are moved by motor truck and in less-than-carload lots by rail, but these are not included because of lack of adequate data. The information contained herein supplements that in Statistical Bulletin 27 ^ and is based upon information secured by the market Í Compiled by Leona Norgren of tne Division of Fruits and Vegetables. ' » UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, CAR-LOT SHIPMENTS OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES FROM STATIONS IN THE UNITED dTATES POR THE CALENDAR TEARS 1926 AND 1927. U. S. Dept. Agr. Statis. Bui. 27,156 pp., 1929. «2796*»—31- 2 STATISTICAL BULLETIN 35, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE news service of the Division of Fruits and Vegetables, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, from monthly mail reports covering 34 fruits and vegetables, mixed citrus and deciduous fruits, and mixed vege- tables, furnished by about 15,000 station agents of railroad, express, and boat companies. These reports are checked with daily tele- graphic reports furnished by the operating departments of the carriers. Shipment figures include car-lot freight and express movement by rail, and boat shipments reduced to car-lot equivalents, and are con- fined to the movement of fruits and vegetables produced in the United States. Imports have not been included, as a complete record of them is not available. Shipments are grouped by States and counties. The number of cars of each commodity billed during each of the calender years 1928 and 1929 is shown for each station handling 10 or more cars in either year. Stations originating less than 10 cars of a given commodity nave been grouped together and listed as "Other stations'* in their proper county. Counties originating less than 10 cars of a given commodity are grouped together and listed as "Other counties*' in their proper State. "Conductors' waybills" cover movements from nonagency points forwarded on waybills made out hj conductors. Where possible, such shipments have been grouped under the proper county; otherwise they are added to the State total. A "pick-up car" in express service is a car that proceeds from station to station and picks up small or less-than-carload lots until a carload is accumulated. This carload may then be shipped either to final destination to one or more consignees, or it may move to a "break-bulk" point for reloading or consolidation with other com- modities for shipment to final destination. "Pick-up cars" are added to State totals m this bulletin. "Boat reports" cover movements by boat reduced to car-lot equivalents. In some instances it has been possible to credit such movements to the originating point; in other cases they are credited to either county or State. Tables 3 and 4 were compiled to show the approximate period within which the bulk of the car-lot movement of fresh fruits and vegetables occurred during 1928 and 1929. Transportation of fruits and vegetables by motor truck is of growing impiortance. Complete data on motor-truck shipments are not available; however, in Table 5 will be found a comparative study of rail and estimated motor-truck shipments of certain fruits and vegetables in certain areas. This table was compiled from data in an unpublished manuscript, Motor-Truck Transportation of Fruits and Vegetables. Acknowledgment and thanks are extended to the common carriers for their cooperation and valuable assistance in furnishing the original data from which this bulletin is compiled. CAR-LOT SHIPMENT^ OF JfRUITO AND VEGETABLES 3 TABLE 1- -Summary of total United States car-lot shipments of fry.itSj melonSy and vegetables y 1928 and 1929 compared with two previous years Commodity 1926» 1927» 1928 1929 Cars Cars Cars Cars Apples _ _ _ _ 132, 263 102, 517 120,154 104,771 Apples, dried 1,226 989 1,116 937 Cantaloupes 26,940 30,241 28,975 28,148 Cherries 3,155 1,461 2,671 2,299 Cranberries _ _ . 4,853 1,786 1,786 tm Grapefruit .- _ 15,931 19,151 17,677 25,137 Grapes... 78,608 82,671 81,737 66,136 Lemons . 14.266 13,145 13.649 16,174 Melons, miscellaneous 6,484 6,616 9,719 11,804 Mixed citrus fruits 6,109 8,039 7,885 11,746 Mixed deciduous fruits 6,569 5,442 6,500 5,177 Oranges.. 68,467 75,239 64,443 97,050 Peaches . .. .. 58,465 41, 503 56,975 35,451 Peaches, dried 892 473 672 471 Pears _ 25,080 18,831 24,254 20,750 Plums and pnmei? _ _ _ 7,499 6,988 7,295 6,046 Prunes, dried _ 8,370 8,772 9,217 6,261 Strawberries 13,619 17,891 18, 716 18,732 Watermelons . 66,188 46,460 48, 497 62,514 Asparagus _. _ ... 2,419 2,132 2,877 2,102 Beans, snap 4,855 7,301 5,766 9,560 Cabbage _. 40,385 38,470 41,137 44,240 Carrots _. 4,665 6,907 8,933 12,028 Cauliflower 6,661 7,241 9,724 10,060 Celery _ 19, 520 24,288 25,658 25,567 Cucumbers . 7,269 8,180 7,468 7,469 Eggplant 111 412 211 416 Lettuce 42, 207 46,850 51,504 53,234 Mixed vegetables._ 30,651 35,050 33,381 32,430 Onions 33, 6r.o 33,961 35,245 36,921 Peas, green 3, 571 4,186 4,792 5,187 Peppers .. .. 2,317 3,138 3,078 3,380 Potatoes 232,424 253,445 257, 343 253,194 Spinach.