INDIANA HORTICUI/rUKAL SOCIETY, 637 



Mr. Williams: It is usually better to sell to a commissiou man, as you 

 are much more safe than to be selling to Tom, Dick or Harry. 



Mr. Stanley: I think we should make ourselves safe with a private 

 person just the same as with a commissiou man. 



Mr. Williams: Suppose you should ship your fruit to a private party, 

 and he had all he needed. What Avould you do? 



Mr. Stanley: I would consider it a poor business proposition to ship 

 the goods before they were sold. I would know that they were sold 

 before I would make a shipment. 



Mr. Widney: I have had some experience along this line. I tried to 

 market some potatoes in Cleveland. I found this market glutted, and 

 the Chicago market glutted, and the market at Pittsburg full, and I 

 found an opening at Cincinnati, where they wanted some potatoes. I 

 should just like to ask some of these gentlemen who do not believe in 

 commission men how they would have gone about the matter of selling 

 these three or four cars of potatoes? I went to Cincinnati and investi- 

 gated the commission men, and then went and sold my potatoes, and 1 

 saved from fifty to seventy-five dollars in the way I packed the goods. 

 and I got my idea from the commission man, too. They had plenty of 

 barrels, and so he told me to load my potatoes in bulk. Now, how would 

 you have gone about selling those potatoes without a commission man? 

 That is what I would like for someone to explain to me. 



Mr. Swaim: It seems to me that this discussion has arisen on account 

 of a misunderstanding. I do not think Mr. Stanley meant to insinuate 

 that he would dodge the commission man in any way, he was just talking 

 of selling outright and not selling to a commission man. If he got more 

 from the commission man he would sell to him just as quick as anyone 

 else. 



Mr. Williams: In a great many sections this is being done: When 

 there are three or foiu- or five cars of strawberries going out, probably 

 there will be a man standing there who will ask you how much you 

 will take for your shipment. They are speculating. They sell to the 

 dealers in smaller places. He lets the grocer sell them on a commission, 

 so the grocer takes no chances at all. 



Mr. Swaim: In justice to the strawberry grower in the State of In- 

 diana, I believe I ought to add that I think Mr. Williams is surely mis- 

 taken when he says that it took three quart boxes, of berries to fill one 

 quart measure. They were certainly pint boxes. If that was the case 

 I think he is right. I do not believe there is any strawberry grower in 

 the State of Indiana that would do such a thing. 



