METHODS OF CULTURE IN THE SOUTH. i8l 



ship was empty, a throng of white laborers wheel each pack- 

 age to its proper place. Mr. Young's crates soon grew into 

 what seemed, in the distance, a good-sized mound. The 

 number above them stood for Eldridge & Carpenter, West 

 Washington Market. Thither we followed them the next 

 morning, but found that the most of them had already been 

 scattered throughout the city, and reaHzed that the berries 

 we had seen a few hours before on the strawberry farm were 

 even then on uptown breakfast-tables. 



