480 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



should be better protected; prefers the splint-top basket with oval top; does 

 not believe in shipping to one man lest he will be overstocked. A good, hon- 

 est man will do as well for a small as a large lot. 



TRANSPORTATION. 



South Haven, February 16, 1874. 



The subject for consideration was " Transportation." 



Mr. C. H. Wigglesworth was appointed to make the opening remarks. He 

 urged strongly the necessity of securing a boat to run direct from this port to 

 Chicago, daily if possible, which should be committed principally to the fruit 

 interests of this place. The boats we have been dependent on made our fruit 

 a secondary consideration, usually delivering the fruit at Chicago too late for 

 the early trains and the best market, whereby we lost from ten to twenty-five 

 or more cents per basket or crate. They were also very careless as to where 

 they placed the fruit in unloading. He thought that a boat could do a profit- 

 able business from this port alone if the merchants and others would, as they 

 should, transport their goods by it, and if effort was made to secure travel and 

 freight by way of the railroad. 



The suggestions of Mr. Wigglesworth were generally approved, and Mr. E ► 

 J. Lockwood moved that the president appoint a committee to negotiate for a 

 boat, and to arrange for the best facilities for transportation. The motion 

 prevailed. 



Mr. J. Williams urged the importance of shippers marking packages care- 

 fully, taking full receipts, seeing that their shipments were properly billed, in- 

 structing their consignees not to receipt for or pay freight or express on any 

 but such as was delivered in good order, and then to promptly demand repara- 

 tion for damage or shortage. 



Some codling-moth millers were exhibited in a jar, placed there by Mr. L. 

 H. Bailey, and hatched out after having been subjected to severe freezing. 



South Haven, March 2, 1874. 



The subject of packing fruit for shipment was taken up from last week. 



Mr. Wiley of Saugatuck was present, as a representative of the fruit growers 

 of that vicinity, to confer with this society in reference to some change in the 

 present system of marketing fruit. The report of last meeting on this subject 

 was read. Mr. Williams corrected the statement of the report in reference to 

 the cost of freight on the boxes mentioned. It should be ten cents per half 

 bushel box. He thought the whole package of four boxes might be shipped 

 for twenty-five cents. 



Mr. Wiley sustained the position taken by Mr. J. Williams at the last meet- 

 ing. He showed that the expense of packing, freight, and commission was 

 about $1 38 per bushel, as much as common peaches were worth when there 

 was a good crop. He asserted his belief that in a few years, in a favorable 

 season, very little profit would be realized from peaches unless some cheaper 

 packages and cheaper freight prevailed ; that we could not look forward with 

 success in the business imless the present expensive methods were done away 



