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train was sent to Xew York from Oswego via D., L. & W. E.. K. 

 The attempt was badly managed, and ended in failure, the cost of 

 transportation exceeding the price of berries in New York by 3 

 cents per quart. 



"There were about 500 crates a season shipped in 1878 to 1880, 

 but about this time E. P. Loomis and A. Bennett & Co. of New 

 York instituted service of refrigerator cars to New York and J. 

 Heagerty arranged a similar one on the K., W. & O. and N. Y. C. 

 for New York, and another on the D., L. & W. for Philadelphia. 



" Active competition in buying between J. K. Lynch and J. 

 Heagerty, togetiier with the fact that Oswego County strawberries 

 were recognized on the New York and Philadelphia markets as 

 possessing a flavor and solidity unequalled, stimulated the business 

 to total shipments of 2,000 crates per season to New York and 

 1,000 crates to Philadelphia in 1883. The price averaged T cents 

 per quart net. In 1881 Oswego County strawberries went into 

 Newark, N. J., via D., L. & W. K. K. 



" The year 1888 was the first in which J. Heagerty, assisted by 

 J. W. Lyon, arranged refrigerator service by P., W. & O. P. P. to 

 Sterling, thence by Lehigh Yalley P. P. to Philadelphia, instead of 

 by D,, L. & W. P. P. The National Ex. Co. placed a service on 

 the O. & ^Y. P. P. to New York in 1891 and 1892, carrying 3,000 

 crates, but it was succeeded by the Adams Ex. Co. on that line. 

 The American Express Co., with special trains of refrigerator cars, 

 made a good record to New York and opened a most important 

 market with Boston. In this year there were two express com- 

 panies and one freight line carrying to New York and two freight 

 lines carried to Philadelphia, the Pennsylvanians having entered 

 the race. The total quantity shipped from the county was 12,000 

 36-quart crates and the average price received was 8 cents per quart. 



"Through the impetus of the newly opened Boston market, the 

 acreage of the strawberry district eidarged in 1891, and in that year 

 nearly all that went to New York was carried by American Ex. Co. 

 The total number of 36-quart crates shipped from Oswego County 

 was 15,000, to all points, and the average price received was 9 cents 

 per quart. The acreage was further increased, and in 1895 car loads 

 were shipped by J. Heagerty to Buffalo, Cleveland and Chicago by 



