176 VEGETABLE FORCING 
There is one reliable house in each important city that 
receives consignments of the Hotbed Association. In 
return for the privilege of receiving all of the consign- 
ments, each commission house sends and pays for a 
private telegram reporting prices obtained for each ship- 
ment. In addition to this information, a daily market 
wire from each of these houses is sent during the ship- 
ping season to the Hotbed Growers’ Association through 
the Southern Produce Company. The members of the 
Hotbed Growers’ Association are very enthusiastic con- 
cerning the benefits of the organization. 
Market slumps of greenhouse products sometimes 
occur because of inefficient distribution. Many small 
towns, and occasionally cities, are meagerly supplied with 
greenhouse vegetables, while other centers of population 
have a surplus. It is extremely difficult to avoid such 
congestion without co-operation among growers. 
Progress in this direction, for various reasons, has not 
been very encouraging. 
