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ideiit and Secretary in whom you have implicit confidence, and leave the 

 business in thoir hands. AVheii you are organized, there are several 

 plans by which you may manage. If there is one central marliet to 

 which you all ship— for instance, in handling apples, if you want to 

 market them in one place, or if it is possible to do that, you can arrange 

 with the President and Secretary to order a car, and if necessary to hold 

 it over, have ice, and you can hold it two or three days in order to get it 

 filled. If you are shipping to Indianapolis or Chicago, make up your 

 minds and agree upon where you want to ship it. You do not necessarily 

 have to ship it all to one. man, or put it in the name of the association; 

 you can mark your goods to anybody you wish. "When you haul your 

 stuff to the car, let your Secretarj- or your loader— you will have to have 

 a loader— give you a receipt for so many packages; but you can mark 

 to wherever you please, and he will give you a manifest, showing so 

 many packages to one and so many to another. The car will be con- 

 signed to one firm, however, on whom you will have to settle. It will 

 be handled by the association and consigned to some particular person or 

 firm, and this per.son will unload the car and deliver to each consignee 

 the goods assigned to him, and the freight will be collected pro rata, ac- 

 cording to the number of packages. So the man who ships one package 

 gets just as cheap a rate as the man shipping one hundred, and the 

 small grower gets the same benefit as the larger. Another plan is, if the 

 association wants to sell a car, let them empower the President and Sec- 

 retary to sell it, and in that case the mone5' Avill be divided on the same 

 plan between the several shippers. Then there has been another plan in 

 vogue on our road, but that is in regard to grapes, and would hardly 

 apply to apples or other fruit. Grapes run along about the same thing 

 as to variety. They ship the season through without regard to where the 

 package goes— each shipper gets a receipt for so many pounds of grapes. 

 They are shipped in the name of the as.sociation and sold in the name 

 averages. But that plan Avould not answer in a general way, and the 

 of the association; and at the end of the season they foot up, and each 

 shipper receives according to the price that the whole season's shipment 

 better way for the small shippers Avould be to sell to whomsoever they 

 please— to sell the goods on their merits, and if you do not put up good 

 stuff, it can not interfere witli your neighbor, because ho shi]>s to whoever 

 he pleases and gets paid for his stuff. 



Mr. Cardwill: In this vicinity we are disturbed vei-y much by tin- 

 expense of shipping. For strawberries they charge thirty-five cents a 

 crate to Chicago from liere. The express companies are in a combination 

 and chnrge an exorbitant rnte, that gives thoni sometimes as much as 

 four iuindrod dollars for a cnr. The c'X]i"nst» of sliippinir is very li.u'd on 

 the strawberry dealers. 



Mr. Stanton: Why don't you ship by freight? 



