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BETTER FRUIT 



Septt'iiibcr 



OUR SRECIAL-TI 



BOX APPLES 



and the 

 three big 



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EACHES 



EARS 



RUNES 



We handle more box apples that any concern in Ohio and want to hear from every 



grower and shipper who will have either large or small lots'to offer. 



Let us hear from you at once. 



I. N. PRICE & CO., CINCINNATI, OHIO 



REFERENCES: ANY BANK OR CREDIT AGENCY 



Report of Peddling from Cars Committee 



Address by George G. Grupe, Chairman, Before Western Fruit Jobbers 



THE practice of selling from cars 

 has been increasing steadily each 

 year. There seems to be no support 

 or opposition to the practice on the 

 part of the railroads. The lack of oppo- 

 sition on the part of the railroads has 

 been taken advantage of by a class 

 of small shippers and speculators, who 

 only become active at certain seasons 

 of the year when they see an oppor- 

 tunity to make a profit for themselves. 

 The peddlers or speculators run cars 

 into difl'erent markets and as they have 

 no overhead expense, because they do 

 not have any clerk hire, delivery sys- 



We have an attractive 

 Agents proposition. 



Just what you 

 have been 

 looking for 



A practical labor sav- 

 , . ing device for the pro- 



gressive fruit grower. Increase the attractiveness 

 of your package and you naturally increase your 

 financial returns. Just think- all the five'stamps 

 placed on the box at one operation and in a neat, 

 uniform way. Always in line with a clear impris- 

 sion of the type. Nothing upside down or half 

 printed. Stamps variety, grade, number, grower's 

 name and address and net weight in one second. 

 Inks Itself each time for the next box. Can not 

 get out of order. Will work on any kind of press. 

 We have not the space to tell you of all its won- 

 derful features. Write and we will be pleased to 

 send literature. 



Practical Box Marker Co. 



Otis Orchards, Wash. 



Nice Bright Western Pine 



FRUIT BOXES 



AND CRATES 



Good standard grades. Well made. Quick shipments. 

 Carloads or less. Get our prices. 



Western Pine Box Sales Co. 



SPOKANE, WASH. 



W^anted to Hear 



from owner of good ranch for sale. 

 State cash price and description. 



D. F. BUSH, 



Minneapolis Minnesota 



teiu, rent, taxes or insurance to pay, 

 they make mean competition for the 

 legitimate jobbers and retailers, who 

 have established places of business and 

 employ labor, pay taxes and in other 

 ways support the community in which 

 they are located. Furthermore, by con- 

 gesting the public team tracks with 

 peddler cars the legitimate jobber is 

 inconvenienced. These peddlers gen- 

 erally get the most favorable locations 

 on the team tracks, and by holding cars 

 out of service, while they are selling 

 their wares from these cars, they make 

 it necessary for the railroads to spot 

 the cars for the regular jobbers in less 

 favorable locations and generally a 

 greater distance from their places of 

 business; thereby putting the regular 

 jobber, who is an all-year-round patron 

 of the railroad, to considerable incon- 

 venience and greater expense in haul- 

 ing his goods from the cars. 



Not only is this peddler practice 

 harmful to the jobber, but is also harm- 

 ful to the large retailer, who would 

 buy some of his goods in carload lots, 

 but is afraid of competition from 

 peddler cars. The practice is harm- 

 ful to the grower and shipper, inas- 

 much as the peddler frequently de- 

 moralizes the markets, thereby causing 

 the regular jobber to stop buying at 

 producing points until he can buy sufTi- 

 ciently low enough to enable him to 

 compete with the peddler car, and it 

 causes the commission merchant, who 

 sells consignments on commission for 

 the grower, to meet prices made by 

 peddlers, thereby reducing the net 

 returns to the grower. It is the opin- 

 ion of your committee that every mem- 

 ber of our association should endeavor 

 through the representatives he sends 

 to producing points, to educate the 

 growers to the fact that peddling re- 

 sults in lower prices for the grower. 



By cars being held out of service, 

 while being used as sales rooms, the 

 railroad companies do not have the use 

 of their eiiuipment and in many cases 

 shi|)pers are inconvenienced through 

 the railroad not being able to furnish 

 cars promptly for them to ship in, as 



the peddler is most active at the very 

 season each year when railroads have 

 the greatest demand for cars. There 

 is a prejudice on the part of a class 

 of growers and shippers against the 

 elimination of the peddling evil. When 

 your committee took this matter up 

 with the several railroads that were 

 permitting peddling on their lines, it 

 was found that the proposition had 

 been before the General Managers' 

 Association of the Western Trunk Lines 

 for some two years, but no action had 

 been taken. In some cases it was found 

 necessary to take the proposition up 

 personally with the higher-up ollicials 

 of the railroads — generally the vice- 



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