MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTION OF STRAWBERRIES. 19 



tricts shipping more than 175 cars. It will he seen that in most cases 

 each producing section shipped very heavily to a certain limited con- 

 suming area, and in some cases entirely confined its shipments to that 

 are? 



The widest distribution was reached in Louisiana (see fig. 12a), 

 as from this district both Atlantic and Pacific coast markets were 

 reached. This unusually wide distribution was due largely to lack 

 of competition, as other districts do not produce so early, and also to 

 geographical position, Louisiana being practically midway between 

 the two. However, even this district depends largely upon a single 

 market, as Chicago took 647 cars out of a total of 1,335. 



Alabama shipped principally to Ohio and Michigan points, Cincin- 

 nati and Detroit taking 163 and 58 cars, respectively, out of a total 

 of 314 cars. (See fig. 12b.) 



The Carolinas, Virginia, and New Jersey districts depended almost 

 entirely upon the Atlantic seaboard markets, especially Philadel- 

 phia, the metropolitan district, and Boston. (See fig. 12b.) These 

 districts shipped very lightly to points no farther west than Pitts- 

 burgh and Buffalo, and depended very generally upon the large 

 markets. New Jersey, for instance, shipped 800 cars to Jersey City 

 and 100 to New York, out of a total of 1,291 cars. 



In contrast, the Delaware-Maryland district (fig. 12b) distributed 

 heavily to smaller towns, and also to towns in the interior of the 

 States of Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, and Michigan, and even as 

 far west as Chicago. A much smaller percentage of the total move- 

 ment went to the large seaboard markets, while towns such as 

 Elmira, N. Y., Erie, Pa., Bridgeport, Conn., Altoona, Pa., Worcester, 

 Mass., and Wilkes-Barre, Pa., were supplied. Many others received 

 fairly liberal shipments. It is a question whether this efficient dis- 

 tribution was not a considerable factor in the successful marketing 

 of the berries from this district in 1915. 



West Tennessee (fig. 12b), with 506 cars, probably secured as wide 

 distribution as any area with a similar quantity of shipments, reaching 

 as far as Jacksonville, Fla., and Macon, Ga., to the southeast, Bangor 

 and Portland, Me., to the northeast, and Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sioux 

 Falls, S. Dak., and Lincoln, Nebr., to the northwest. Ohio points 

 received the heaviest shipments going to any one State. 



The distribution from East Tennessee (fig. 12b), with a total of 693 

 cars, was comparatively more restricted, a much larger percentage of 

 the crop going to Ohio points. Cincinnati alone took 203 cars, while 

 Dayton, Columbus, Cleveland, and Toledo each received 30 cars or 

 more. From 1 to 20 cars were sent to numerous other Ohio points. 

 Illinois and some western points received small shipments, while one 

 car went to Regina, Saskatchewan. 



