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arrangement usually ship on consignment, in which case charges 

 for the less-than-carload transportation of their product to Jackson- 

 ville and for the carload transportation to destination are deducted 

 from the selling price of the product. The saving to small producers 

 is considerable compared with what the less-than-carload transporta- 

 tion charges from production points to destination might be. 



During 1926 wholesale dealers in Jacksonville distributed 5,724,000 

 pounds of fishery products to 25 States, the District of Columbia, and 

 one Canadian Province. Over 95 per cent of these products orig- 

 inated in Florida. Of the amount distributed, 3,924,000 pounds 

 were reshipped by express and 1,800,000 pounds by freight. 



Shipments to be transported by express in less-than-carload lots 

 are carted by the express carriers from the shippers' establishment 

 to their terminals at no cost to shippers. Carload express shipmeats 

 are carted by express carriers from wholesale establishments to ex- 

 press terminals at no cost to shippers only when the tariff rate apply- 

 ing on the carload shipment is the regular less-than-carload commodity 

 rate or the less-than-carload class rate. 



Shipments to be transported by freight in carload or less-than- 

 carload lots are privately carted by individual shippers between 

 wholesale establishments and team tracks at freight yards or spur 

 tracks. 



Shipments can be loaded directly into freight or express cars 

 switched to the spur tracks at the wholesale market or at the public 

 cold-storage warehouse. The switching charges assessed by the 

 terminal railroad company performing this service are $2.25 per car 

 imless the shipment is destined for a point on the railroad owning the 

 spur tracks or to a point competitive with the railroad owning the 

 spur tracks, in which case there is no switching charge. No charges 

 are assessed for switching from the spur tracks at the public cold- 

 storage warehouse. 



While Jacksonville has direct vessel transportation service with 

 Baltimore and other Atlantic ports, there is no movement of fish on 

 these steamers because they have no refrigeration. Unsuccessful 

 efforts have been made to get the steamship lines to put in refrigera- 

 tion necessary for the handling of fish shipments. 



ResMpment hy States. — The State of New York received the largest 

 amount of fish distributed from Jacksonville in 1926, amounting to 

 1,324,000 pounds; Georgia ranked second, receiving 721,000 pounds; 

 Florida was third with 671,000 pounds; Pennsylvania was fourth 

 with 427,000 pounds; and Missouri was fifth with 330,000 pounds. 

 Twenty other States, the District of Columbia, and a Canadian 

 Province received 2,251,000 pounds. 



As a rule those States immediately surrounding and including 

 Florida represent the section where sh'pments are made direct to 

 retailers or consumers. Usually these shipments are moved by 

 express in less-than-carload lots. No comprehensive stud}^ was 

 made of the number of towns in these States receiving fish from 

 Jacksonville, but from general knowledge it is believed that virtually 

 every town with a population of 10,000 or more in Florida, Georgia, 

 and Alabama receives fish from Jacksonville. 



In the States more remote to the north and west Jacksonville fish 

 dealers make their contact mainly with wholesale fish dealers in the 



