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THE KANSAS PEACH. 



season [1898] through failing to provide an adequate supply of car- 

 riers to handle their crop, and how much loss was sustained by ship- 

 ping in California crates and other unsatisfactory packages which 

 their exigencies forced them to use. 



Probably the most important factor in marketing is the selection 

 of the market. Frequently, when large shipping centers are glutted 

 on account of the tendency of the average grower to ship to the big- 

 gest markets, very satisfactory returns may be obtained by selecting 

 smaller and more obscure points. During the handling of the enor- 

 mous crop of the past season [1898] profitable returns were frequently 

 obtained from such minor markets as Lincoln, Neb., Duluth, Minn., 

 Springfield, 111., etc., when shipments the same day to New York, 

 Chicago or Cincinnati barely paid freight. 



Fig. 4. Types of Peach Carriers. 



1, California ; 2, Georgia ; 3, Michigan ; 4, Delaware ; 5, North Carolina. 



(Farmers' Ballelin 33, United States Department of Agriculture.) 



Another important question is in the selection of varieties. At 

 present the bulk of the Georgia crop is of course Elberta. Finding 

 the market this year glutted with this variety, and that Emma, coming 

 in immediately after, brought good prices, there will doubtless be an 

 enormous acreage in the next year or two planted in Emma ; and this 

 must necessarily result, in a short time, in as bad a glut during the 

 Emma shipping season as now occurs with Elberta. Therefore the 

 careful grower should seek, in addition to these two standard varieties 



