MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTION OF STRAWBERRIES. 
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SHIPPING. 
Most of the Louisiana crop is shipped in 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 Louisiuria 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, 111 
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. 
Destination. 
♦Minneapolis, Minn 
♦Montreal, Canada 
Marshfield, Wis 
Mounds, Ed 
Muskogee, Okla 
New York, N. Y 
Oklahoma City, Okla. . 
♦Omaha, Nebr 
Ottawa, Ontario 
Ottumwa, Iowa 
Peoria, 111 
Philadelphia, Pa 
♦Pittsburgh, Pa 
Providence, R.I 
Pueblo, Colo •. 
Regina, Saskatchewan. 
Rockford 111 
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 Rural 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. 
