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can be still further improved if our growers will see to it 

 that their products are grown, harv^ested and put up in the 

 very best manner, thus insuring a guaranteed, uniform, Al 

 product. 



The marketing problem is one which is of equal im- 

 poi'tance with the growing of different crops. Of what avail 

 is it if a man is able to produce large crops of excellent 

 quality if he is forced to dispose of them at a price no higher 

 than the ordinary run? The replies to the question seek- 

 ing information upon the method of marketing now in vogue 

 brought the following information : 44 report " through 

 commission houses;" 33, "direct to consumer;" 17, 

 " through the local stores ; " 5, " through buyers ; " 2, " co- 

 operatively ; " 2, " export." Many of the reports " direct 

 to consumer " doubtless came from localities where the quan- 

 tity of fruit raised was not particularly large and the to\vn 

 and neighboring communities furnished an outlet. As the 

 industry increases, all cannot sell direct to the consumer, 

 which method doubtless results in the producer securing the 

 largest prices. On the other hand, however, the market is 

 constantly upon the increase. Co-operation is the solution 

 of the marketing question, and through this method, when 

 the individual growers are willing to merge and to have the 

 undertaking conducted on a sound basis, will the largest pos- 

 sible return be made to a group of fruit growers. 



Fkost Damage. 

 There appears to have been considerable damage to the 

 fruit bloom by frosts during the month of May. Out of the 

 total number of replies at hand only 14, from widely scat- 

 tered sections of the State, claim that no damage was done, 

 showing that the frosts were general, rather than confined to 

 any particular locality. By far the greatest damage was 

 done on comparatively low lands. Strawberries seem to have 

 been the worst sufferers, 35 correspondents reporting more 

 or less serious damage to this crop ; peaches, evidently, were 

 also heavy sufferers, 23 reporting frost injury to the bloom; 

 apples, also, especially on low land, were injured, 18 re- 



