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Don't wait for your neighbor to do all the experimenting with new 

 varieties, and then try to get his plants at the price of the standards. 

 Encourage the originators of new fruits, do some experimenting your- 

 self, and keep a sharp lookout for the ideal strawberry. 



Don't double or quadruple your acreage the year after you have 

 had good prices. Three thousand berry growers might do likewise. 

 Don't you know that the largely increased acreage will knock the bot- 

 tom out of the market. Great losses to growers and dealers follow 

 glutted markets. Be moderate in your planting, and your profits will 

 be large. 



DISCUSSION ON TRANSPORTATION. 



J. M. Irvine — The Iowa Society has a standing committee on rates 

 and transportation. Last week I attended the Iowa meeting and the 

 question of marketing came up, and a committee was appointed to in- 

 dorse a recommendation of President Roosevelt along this Ime in his 

 recent message to Congress. The Missouri Pacific and Frisco roads have 

 done a good deal for the fruit growers in south Missouri, but north 

 Missouri has not done much. There is an inconsistency in the rates 

 made by the Burlington and Chicago & Alton and other lines in north 

 Missouri and Iowa. The railroads give a rate of sixty-seven cents 

 per hundred from St. Joseph, Missouri to Nebraska, but from Rochester, 

 New York, to Nebraska the rate is fifty cents per hundred. Iowa is 

 alive to this matter and is going to do something. I think this should 

 be taken up by this society and something done for the orchardists in 

 north Missouri. 



Sec'y Goodman — This society has a Committee on Transportation 

 consisting of G. T. Tippin, Nichols, C. C. Bell, Boonville, and A. T. 

 Nelson, Lebanon, and this committee has done some good work, but 

 can do more. 



E. G. Mendenhall — The Illinois Central Railway gives good rates 

 on fruit shipped to Chicago, the rate is twenty cents per hundred or 

 about thirty cents per barrel. I made a motion in the Illinois society to 

 have a committee go before the Railway 'and Warehouse Commission 

 and ask for special rates on pears. I was appointed on that committee 

 and we got the same rate for pears as for apples ; at first only by the 

 barrel, but now we get such a rate on pears by the basket also. 



G. A. Atwood — At the next meeting of the Berry Growers Associa- 

 tion we have invited the Frisco officials and want them to be there, this 

 meets two weeks from yesterday, and we want all other horticulturalists 



