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the farmers of, perhaps, Springfield and other places to know 

 at noon as to the market conditions in other centers the pre- 

 vious day. I would like to ask him if it would be practicable, 

 on perishable goods, to know at that time if they could be 

 shipped, for instance, from Hartford to Portland? 



Mr. Selby. In our own farm experience in Jersey and south- 

 ern Pennsylvania, at many times in the height of the season we 

 bring our loads of peaches to the market without the least bit 

 of knowledge as to how they will be disposed of. They are 

 ripe, mature and must be shipped somewhere, and through this 

 News Service we are finding the cities where we believe there 

 will be the best demand, judging from the receipts reported in 

 those cities and from the price they are paying. The informa- 

 tion is received by noon the same day, not by noon the follow- 

 ing day. 



Mr. Flood. I see. I thought it was the previous day. 



]\Ir. Selby. No. The produce markets are very early in 

 nearly every instance, and the bulletins you men may receive 

 from the Boston office, if you are on the mailing list there, 

 show the prices. The bulletin is released at noon that day, 

 showing the price of the various products on that morning's 

 market, so that you can secure that information by telephoning 

 that ofiice, or, if you are in the city, receive it from the office. 

 You receive it by mail the following day. 



]\Ir. TiNKHAM. On our market, very often any farmer that 

 belongs to the association can telephone in any time after 7 o'clock 

 in the morning and learn what the same articles were sold for 

 that morning in Boston. He can then ship during that day to 

 Boston. If there were facilities for handling it here in Worces- 

 ter we could as readily ship here because we know for about 

 what they are selling here by 7 o'clock in the morning — what 

 they are sold for that morning. That may be a little clearer 

 statement of it. Any person belonging to the association can 

 telephone in to the headquarters any time in the morning — I 

 said 7 : I might as well say 6 — and find out what any of the 

 local, any of the common, products are selling for in Boston, 

 New York, Springfield. W^e know whether we can ship to 

 Providence that afternoon or whether we had better ship to 

 Boston. Very often we do ship many truck loads into Boston. 



