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and not over 1,000 acres at one shipping station, if the plants shall be 

 well cultivated, there will not be too large a supply for the demand, 

 provided our organizations are maintained and the spirit of harmony 

 and confidence prevails. If the railroads and express companies will 

 co-operate with us genuinely,, we can send out 2,000 car loads — crating 

 only fancy and A berries and the supply will not exceed the demand. If 

 present conditions are to continue then there is over-production and there 

 will be until growers have been further punished. 



DISCUSSION ON DISTRIBUTION. 



Evans. — Over-production should be qualified, it never has been 

 w^est of the Mississippi, but we do need better distribution. A hundred 

 towns in Missouri have gone hungry for strawberries this year while 

 thousands sold in Kansas City for fifty cents a crate. 



Chubbuck. — I indorse Mr. Evans; the larger towns and smaller 

 ones, too, were not supplied with berries; while St. Louis market was 

 flooded and we bought too cheaply. 



Henry Wallis-Wellston. — One great fault is with the commission 

 man, he wishes much profit and allows none to the grower. St. Louis 

 men will not ship to the smaller places. 



Irvine. — The commission man at St. Joseph received berries in 

 good shape and sent them at $1.75 a crate to jSTebraska, but the ISTebraska 

 man returned only fifty cents a crate because he had soft berries at 

 that before. There are two trains a day from St. Joseph to Kansas 

 City, but one express company will not transfer to the other which has 

 more trains, prefering to send way round by Omaha just to get more 

 express. 



Barnes. — We are to blame because we over crowd the companies. 

 I have seen thirty cars come into Topeka in one da}'. One day ten 

 cars of produce stood on the track, the stuff was sent on commission. 

 The best rule is to buy it, pay for it and resell, we get more by sending to 

 small towns. We need to telegraph, mail is not fast enough to find 

 prices at a market. We should not crowd into the great centers, nor 

 hide from our neighbors what we are doing. 



