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THE KADOTA FIG 



My figs have been transported to Eastern Canada, as well as to all East- 

 ern seaboard cities, and have sold for prices ranging from 20 cents to 50 

 cents per pound, and were transported in ordinary iced cars, consuming 1 to 

 1 6 days in transit. Hence my deduction regarding circulation of air. 



New York, Boston and Pittsburg in the East, and St. Louis in the West, 

 have proven my best markets, while Chicago has invariably been my poorest. 



I am informed that our figs are retailed at 1 and 1 5 cents each and are 

 eaten out of hand by the consumer in these Eastern markets, and the average 

 person gets but a couple of figs fresh per season. The market is abso- 

 lutely undeveloped and entirely unlimited, and we in California will never 

 be able to supply the Eastern demand for our fresh article, even when the 

 welcome day arrives when we Kadota growers can load a full car of figs, 

 after effecting an organization of Kadota fig growers and shippers, and launch 

 a campaign of education in the East and forward our own fruit to our own 

 selling agency and distributor. After we have done these things, I doubt if 

 there be acres of land in California capable of bearing sufficient figs to pro- 

 duce a supply that will satisfy local canners and an educated consuming 

 public in the East. The prices will always be good and demand increasing 

 and prospects positively startling. 



With our fresh fig industry only just born, yet so great is the demand by 

 the consuming public, both East and West, for fresh fig products, that we can- 

 not now and perhaps not for 25 years to come can we plant fast enough nor 



Kadota 



4^ years after planting 



