MARKETING FRUIT BY ASSOCIATION. 1 79 



Mr. Wyman Elliot : What do you do with the fruit of a man 

 which is of a little better grade than his neighbor's ? 



Mr. Stubbs : Oh, the difference in the fruit is very little. 



Mr. Elliot: Yes, but is that justice? 



Mr. Stubbs : Well, it seems to be as near as we can get at it. 



Mr. Elliot : That seems to be the question. There ought to be 

 a difference made. 



Mr. Stubbs : It is impossible, you can't do it. We have never 

 had much trouble except sometimes when a rain comes, and then 

 they are pretty near alike. The general manager looks after that. 



Mr. Herbst (Wis.) : We have a general manager to look after 

 our fruit. We have refrigerator cars set on the track into which the 

 fruit is loaded. There is a manifest made out for all there is in the 

 car, and each grower gets what his berries will bring. If he has 

 good berries he gets more for them. They do not get the same price 

 all the way through. 



Mr. Wright : We make sales through our general manager, and 

 what is not disposed of has to go to the commission man. Each 

 man has to get the same price as the every other. 



Mr. Herbst : Oh, well, I should say somebody gets it in the neck 

 in that case. 



ANNUAL MEETING, 1902, SOUTH DAKOTA HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



IvYCURGUS R. MOVER, DELEGATE, MONTEVIDEO. 



The South Dakota Horticultural Society met at Sioux Falls on 

 Jan. 21, 1902. Sioux Falls is finely located on the Big Sioux river, 

 in the midst of a rich agricultural country. Pipestone creek, on 

 which is situated the great pipestone quarry, celebrated in song and 

 story, enters the Big Sioux river here. Sioux Falls is reached by 

 five trunk line railways and is, without doubt, the most accessible 

 railway point in South Dakota. Situated, as it is, so near the Min- 

 nesota border and in the heart of the great prairie regions, it ought 

 at some time to be the home of a great interstate horticultural so- 

 ciety, where there could be studied and solved the peculiar prob- 

 lems that confront the tree planter and fruit grower in the regions 

 where trees do not naturally grow. 



The South Dakota Horticultural Society, while not large, has 

 many enthusiastic members. The society is especially fortunate in 

 having Prof. N. E. Hansen for its secretary. It is easy to say that 

 he is an enthusiastic horticulturist; but his enthusiasm is of the 

 quiet kind that takes account of every obstacle in the pathway of 

 success and which works early and late with tireless energy to re- 

 move or at least surmount them. Nansen did not drive the Fram 

 into the ice pack of the Arctic seas with more determination in his 



