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for icing to be added. Before that we were charged about 

 twenty-five dollars. So we made a saving on that. 



Another thing, we pack our own cars, so that we know 

 that they are packed as they ought to be. No railroad man 

 and no expressman will take the care that ought to be taken 

 to pack fruit right in the car. If one of our men does the 

 packing, we can get more in the car, and pack it better. We 

 do not want to have the baskets handled roughly, and that is 

 the kind of treatment they get if the railroad man and express- 

 man do the work. 



Now we telegraph that we have got those cars loaded, 

 and we get the market report, and we get a telegraphic ans- 

 wer whether they want those cars. We telegraph the con- 

 tents when they are sold. For that we were also charged 

 before an extra amount of some two thousand dollars. It 

 was less on that $28,000, but making $33,000 if those cars 

 had gone out in broken lots, shipped by the individual grower 

 at less than carload rates. If those cars had gone out in 

 broken lots shipped by the individual growers, at less than 

 carload rates for the freight, they would have cost us in the 

 neighborhood of from fifty to fifty-one thousand dollars; so 

 you see there was a saving there of some seventeen thousand 

 dollars. If they had gone by the express company, and been 

 put in the market in only a little shorter time, and in not 

 nearly as good shape, they would have cost us a little over 

 eightv thousand dollars. So you can see that as between the 

 express company and shipping by freight there was a saving 

 of forty-two thousand dollars. The charges that we had to 

 pay amounted to about only thirty-three thousand dollars. 

 So by getting the growers together and forming that co- 

 operative association we saved all that money to be divided 

 up among the shippers. But that is only one item. Another 

 saving came in the question of the purchase of supplies. Of 

 course you want to know, will it be possible to handle our 

 supplies co-operatively? I can answer that. It all depends 

 on yourselves. If you have got middlemen to throw their in- 



