MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTION OF STRAWBERRIES. 



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SHIPPING. 



Most of the Louisiana crop is shipped m express cars. These ship- 

 ments generally have carried better than freight shipments, have 

 given better satisfaction, and consequently have sold at consistently 

 better prices. 



The distribution of freight and express cars from the Louisiana 

 district in 1915 to all markets is shown in Table 1. 



Table 1. — Destination points of berry cars shipped from, the Louisiana district, season 



1915. 



Destination. 



Aberdeen, S. Dak. . . 



Bloomington, 111 



♦Boston, Mass 



Bridgeport, Conn 



♦Buffalo, N. Y 



Burlington, Iowa 



Calgary, Alberta .... 



Cedar Rapids, Iowa . 



Champaign, 111 



♦Chicago, Ul 



Cincinnati, Ohio .... 



Cleveland, Ohio 



Council Bluffs, Iowa. 



Davenport, Iowa 



♦Denver, Colo 



♦Des Moines, Iowa. . . 

 ♦Detroit, Mich 



Duluth, Minn 



East St. Louis, 111... 



Elgin, HI 



Erie, Pa 



Fargo, N.Dak 



Fort Wayne, Ind 



Freemont, Nebr 



Freeport, 111 



Grand Island, Nebr. 



Grand Rapids, Mich. 



Hastings, Nebr 



♦Indianapolis, Ind 



Jamestown, N. Y 



♦Kansas City, Mo .... 



Lafayette, Ind 



Lincoln, Nebr 



Louisville, Ky 



♦Milwaukee, Wis 



Freight 

 cars. 



1 



1 



355 



Express 

 cars. 



7 



1 



1 



292 



1 



5 



1 



2 



18 



18 



21 



Destination. 



♦Minneapolis, Minn 



♦Montreal, Canada 



Marshfield, Wis 



Mounds, IB 



Muskogee, Okla 



New York, N. Y 



Oklahoma City, Okla. . 

 ♦Omaha, Nebr 



Ottawa, Ontario 



Ottumwa, Iowa 



Peoria, Bl 



Philadelphia, Pa 



♦Pittsburgh, Pa 



Providence. R.I 



Pueblo, Colo 



Regina, Saskatchewan. 



Bockford El 



St. Joseph, Mo 



♦St. Louis, Mo 



♦St. Paul, Minn 



Seattle, Wash 



Sioux City, Iowa 



Sioux Falls, S. Dak.... 



South Bend, Ind 



Springfield, Ohio 



Toledo, Ohio 



Topeka, Kans 



Toronto, Ontario 



Tulsa, Okla 



Waterloo, Iowa 



Winnipeg, Manitoba. . 



Worcester, Mass 



Carbondale, 111 



Total. 



Freight 

 cars. 



Express 

 cars. 



* Cities used over 15 cars during the season. 



EXTENT, LENGTH, AND VOLUME OF MOVEMENT FROM ALL DISTRICTS. 



The extent, length, and volume of the commercial strawberry 

 movement of the various important districts of the United States, 

 as reported by telegraph to the Office of Markets and Eural Organi- 

 zation, are illustrated in figure 5. This chart is incomplete, since 

 omissions were noted frequently in the reports received from the 

 railroads daily by telegraph. Of total shipments throughout the 

 United States, amounting to 13,409 cars, the railroads reported by 

 telegram the movement and destination of 11,059^ cars, or 82.5 per 

 cent of the total as furnished from their records at the end of the 

 season. The reason for the incompleteness of these reports may be 

 traced to the fact that no attempt was made to report on 1. c. 1.1 

 movement by telegram. When the sources of information are scat- 

 tered and reports are voluntary and without compensation, a certain 



1 1. c. 1. is the usual abbreviation for less than carload lots. 



