510 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Mr. Cardwill: If wc .ship by freight it ju.st makes a clay's differeuce 

 ill time, and if we would send a car out tonight it would not get to tlu' 

 Chicago market till llie day after tomorrow morning. 



Mr. Stanton: Biit if llio car is iced there will be no trouble about 

 that; you can just as well get them there for about twenty cents. I do 

 not think it would be over twenty cents from there. But the thing to 

 do is to form an association and let the association order a refrigoiator 

 car, and if you can not load it today, hold it over till tomorrow. 



Mr. Fawcett: I was appointed a committee at one time to see what 

 could be done in that regard, and I went to see the different railroads 

 about it and worked several days on it; and finally they promised to 

 put a train on for us, about four ears, and it would cost us about seven 

 cents a crate; but they would have had to go through on fast time, and 

 we couldn't succeed in getting them to go into It. 



Mr. Stanton: If you had had an association you could have worked 

 it, and that is the value of an association. An association having the 

 requisite qualifications I started out with— confidence in each other- 

 there would have been no question of your succeeding. 



Judge Cardwill: I think you have hit it exactly when you insist upon 

 having confidence in each other. The trouble is each one is afraid of 

 the other in an association of that kind. 



Mr. Stanton: I know how that is. I have been President of an as- 

 sociation for about fifteen years. 



Chairman Latta: Tell us how to beget confidence in one another, 

 Mr. Stanton. 



Mr. Stanton: Well, I think we are rather inconsistent about that. We 

 have enough confidence in some people— too much sometimes. For exam- 

 ple, a man comes around here that you have never seen before, and solicits 

 shipments to his house, and they probably make up all their stuff to go 

 there. Now, isn't that so? You have confidence all right, but it is 

 somewhat misplaced. I think you would have a great advantage here 

 if you would organize in shipping your strawberries. How many do you 

 pick here in a day? 



Mr. Fawcett: Several cars in a day. 



Mr. Stanton: Do the express companies haul them? 



Mr. Fawcett: Nearly all. 



Mr. Stanton: The growers in my State send them in to Chicago on 

 freight trains, without any refrigeration whatever. They always send 

 them by freight. 



