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with the luxury of the solicitors. They make trouble and low prices, 

 want stuff regardless of what the market can use. Every association 

 ought to notify its commission house that it will not consign if they keep 

 a solicitor out. 



Mr. Fowler, Waterloo, Iowa. — Growers should know what they are 

 to receive when they sell. One trouble is that the shippers send other 

 cars when the commission man could giA^e a good price for one. Our 

 house goes where the fruit is grown and buys and pays for it. This is 

 the wav solicitors should do, for by owning the cars thev take more in- 

 terest in them. The growers need the solicitor to sell to, not consign. 



Evans. — The time has come for proper distribution. Much fruit 

 is lost which had better be dumped than sent to market and express paid 

 for it extra. Say to your solicitor, "pay for the car and the wheels will 

 turn, but not before." The commission man can beat us at distribution. 

 There are not too many strawberries, but too many sent to one market 

 because the solicitor wanted to scoop the other fellow. 



A paper was read on "Relation of Transportation to the Growers 

 of Small Fruits," by Maj. A. McKinney, of Pierce City, Mo. 



DISCUSSION ON TRANSPORTATION. 



Irvine. — Can part of the car be sold en route ? 



McKinney. — Some transportation companies jDermit this selling 

 along the line but it is not general at all. 



Helvern. — "We billed a crate to Minnesota but could sell it anywhere 

 we wanted to. 



McKinney. — Will the company switch the car? 



Helvern. — We started a car and had time to unload fifty or sixty 

 crates at stations on the way. 



Evans. — You have to put your large crops of fruit in refrigerating 

 cars and can not expect to stop and take it out. If you ship a small 

 amount, the law allows you to unload any part anywhere and this is prac- 

 ticable with small crops. 



