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sas are concerned. All correspondence, telegraphic or otherwise, 

 should go to this committee, a majority of them to decide by lot where 

 the cars were to go. I believe that this would obviate the overcrowd- 

 ing of any one market, and there would not again in all time be a rep- 

 etition of eight cars in Buffalo on a Monday morning and thirteen cars 

 in Minneapolis on the same day. In Buffalo this was just twice too 

 many and in Minneapolis almost like conditions existed. And how 

 did this come about? Simply from the fact that almost every firm in 

 the two cities named asked for berries in car lots from this immediate 

 section, and I should judge from the receipts that their requests were 

 most amply granted. The consequence was much more fatal to the 

 grower than it was to the consignee, and the price in the two mar- 

 kets named and they, by the way, were not the only fleas on Fido's 

 tail, and the prices obtained were fully fifty cents a case less than they 

 would have been had this overcrowding not occurred. Had complete 

 organization been in existence on the Friday on which these cars were 

 shipped, Buffalo would probably had three cars and Minneapolis five, 

 which would have in nowise glutted either market. As it was,"8ome 

 one, yea, many a one, were extremely fortunate if they got back what 

 the crates and the picking cost them, not saying anything of legitimate 

 profit, which you all should have. 



J. W. Wallace. Minneapolis, Minn. 



By Mr. Tippin — May I have just about ten minutes, Mr. President, 

 to reply to that paper? I assure you I shall appreciate this time. It 

 fell to my lot to represent the growers of Southern Missouri in some 

 of the Northern markets. I want to say that I heartily endorse the 

 theory of co-operation outlined in the paper, and want to say that 

 representative berry-growers have had this matter up while in the 

 markets and have decided to take the matter up by correspondence, 

 and I suppose that Mr. Carson, of the Hood river section, has already 

 taken some active steps in this matter. And I want to say to you 

 gentlemen about having representatives in the market, that the only 

 way for you to know the condition of the market — to know who to 

 ship your berries to — is to have some one there. I want to emphasiae 

 what the House in St. Paul said to me. They said : "I would rather 

 pay you for your time and pay your expenses, if your own people do 

 not feel able to send you and pay your expenses ; I would rather pay 

 it myself and have you on the market than to save that and not have 

 you there." 2^ow, in this matter of solicitation and allotment and all 

 that, you cannot know who to send to and who the men are that 



