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there is usually no difficulty experienced in getting refrigerator cars. 

 At present railroads will not handle refrigerator cars unless they con- 

 tain at least 100 crates, and the freight per crate is higher than for 

 cars containing 200 crates. Usually 200 crates arc put in a car, being 

 placed two layers deep, six layers wide and sixteen layers length- 

 wise in the car. This in an average car gives 1D2 crates. Usually 

 eight more crates are added per car, these being placed on top of 

 the second layer, near the ends of the car. The crates should be 

 packed as illustrated in Plate IX. Notice the space between the 

 crates in the car ; this is to allow good circulation of the cold air. 

 Small slats are also nailed across the crates, so as to hold them snugly 

 in place. There should be no shifting or jarring of crates in the car. 

 The cost of shipping (from Cameron, N. C.) in a refrigerator car 

 containing 200 crates is 97 cents per crate to New York and Phila- 

 delphia, and about $1.14 to Boston and Western cities. 



Selling-.— The fruit is usually sold through commission men in the 

 larger markets. The growler should watch the markets from day to 

 day, to see that he does not ship his fruit to markets that are already 

 glutted. Very often growers will ship their fruit to a market which 

 the previous day gave the highest price. This in many cases brings 

 an overflow of fruit into this market. Proper distribution of fruit 

 to various markets is a subject which must be given far more con- 

 sideration in the future. ' Very often one market will be flooded, 

 while there is a scarcity in another market. If the dewberry growers 

 would get some one man — as the strawberry growers do in the eastern 

 part of the State — to distribute the fruit properly in the various mar- 

 kets, it would come very near solving' the difficulty of too low prices. 



CONCLUSION. 



In conclusion, the author wishes to state that there are several very 

 important problems in dew^berry culture which must be worked out 

 experimentally. Some of these are: the best method of fighting 

 anthracnose, causes and remedy of "double flowering," best method 

 of cutting off canes, best methods of fertilizing, and the subject of 

 varieties. These are now receiving thorough study in an experi- 

 mental way by the author, and will be discussed in a future bulletin 

 as soon as sufficient data is procured. 



