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on them a total loss. The cost of 

 handling, a total loss. They were in- 

 fected before they left the field and 

 never should have been shipped. The 

 chances are that, previous to govern- 

 ment inspection at the receiving end, 

 the dealer would have reported to the 

 shipper that he owed him the freight 

 on the car and the shipper would have 

 called the dealer a thief. 



In the cauliflower deal of last win- 

 ter the growers of California have their 

 only return in sight in the form of 

 claims against the railroad company be- 

 cause iheir crops spoiled in transit. I 

 am not judging their case, but with this 

 scientific information in the hands of 

 the railroad officials and the govern- 

 ment, and the railroads themselves in 

 the hands of the government, dealers 

 are going to have a more dilhcult time 

 in collecting on claims unless they can 

 give their shipments a clean bill of 

 health along with the routing. The 

 original infection leaves room for sec- 

 ondary rots to develop — pink and blue 

 and various other hues — which are usu- 

 ally in full swing by the time it is un- 

 loaded at market. 



I know that the fruit industry of the 

 Northwest is on a high plane and con- 

 ducted by growers of equal, if not 

 superior, intelligence to those of any 

 other part of the country, and I would 

 not presume to suggest that the fruit 

 growers need any improvement in their 

 methods were it not that I know there 

 are some growers hiding behind the 

 virtues of the others. I have seen 

 apples from the Northwest, dumped out 

 of boxes in Chicago, that were not big- 

 ger than radishes. I saw Jonathan 

 apples in Chicago in April of this year 

 were sold in the Northwest f.o.b ship- 

 ping point and, when taken out of the 

 car, were in such condition that the 

 Chicago buyer could sell them for only 

 fifteen cents above what the freight 

 cost him. They had been held in storage 

 and deterioated there. Recently I saw 

 peaches in Portland that were so 

 packed that every one was bruised 

 when the boxes were opened, and 

 would not keep twenty-four hours. In- 

 spection at the receiving end is show- 

 ing the growers such things that they 

 must modify. 



Some writers have laid stress upon 

 the fact that horticulturists in general, 

 and agricultural professors in particu- 

 lar, deal almost exclusively with the 

 l)ro(luction of crops and their handling 

 l)y the growers, but that nowhere in 

 their work do they deal extensively 

 with the marketing of the products 

 after they are produced. They admit 

 that that is a serious vvcakness of their 

 work. As its name implies, one of the 

 chief interests of our Bureau is the 

 study of the marketing of perishables. 

 Extensive investigations have been car- 

 ried on in this country and even 

 abroad, for last year the Bureau of 

 Markets sent a special investigator to 

 the Orient to discover possible addi- 

 tional outlets for the api)le crop of the 

 Northwest. 



It has organized a market reporting 

 service in which the Bureau attempts 

 to keep before growers and shippers 



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