Winter Meeting. 207 



A DISCUSSION ON STRAWBERRIES. 



L. C. Wilson. — I was very much interested in Dr. Beal's paper, 

 but he didn't go quite far enough. I live in a place where your South 

 Missouri berries have come in competition with mine, and I lost my 

 money and you yours at the same time. When there were more ber- 

 ries at home than St. Joe could handle you sent two car loads there, 

 putting the price down from $1.50 to 90 cents a crate in one day. 

 The commission men gave you nothing for your berries, and but 

 little for ours. This fact fits Dr. Beal's ideas. I ask the growers in 

 South Missouri to ask when our berries are getting ripe and not to 

 ship your berries to our place; consult with us, and don't get into 

 competition with us on our own market, and make us both lose money. 



L. J. Hartman. — The Bederwood sells on our market, but not 

 the Brandywine. I sell one grocer 40 crates a day ; he wants a bright 

 red berry, and says it is the best seller we have. 



L. C. Wilson. — One grocer will buy one variety from one grower 

 but not the same variety from another grower. 



N. F. Murray. — The same thing that Mr. W'ilson instanced oc- 

 curs also in our town of Oregon ; we have berries shipped in there 

 when ours are ripening. How shall we prevent this overlapping? 



Member. — This last season was a very unusual one; the Nortli 

 Missouri berries ripening more nearly at the same time as ours than 

 ever before. 



J. M. Irvine. — That is so. In all parts of the State berries ripened 

 together and on our way to the National Nurseryman's Association, 

 in June, the members from New York saw elderberries in bloom all 

 the way from New York to Mobile. 



Pres. Whitten announced that a conference of strawberry growers 

 was called at the Spring City Hotel after this session. 



Louis Erb. — Dr. Beal's paper I consider one of the best we have 

 had. 



S. R. Young. — There is standing on the track near the station, 

 the IVIissouri Pacific car, containing a collection of grains which has 

 been on exhibit at the Farmer's Institute. The fruit which we had 

 from the Missouri exhibit at the World's Fair is all gone. You are all 

 invited to inspect this car, and I shall be glad to show any of you 

 through it. 



