MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTION OF STRAWBERRIES. 
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prices for most of the season in all markets, yet the price range was 
comparatively much narrower, the greatest variation between good 
CHICAGO 
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7 14 20 26 
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MAY 
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Fig. 9. — Jobbing prices of strawberries on the Chicago market in 1915. 
MISSOURI 
and poor being 10 cents per quart (from 18 to 28 cents) in New York 
on May 29. In other markets during most of the season the range 
on Louisiana berries 
was seldom over 5 ST. LOUIS 
cents per quart, and 
usually was much 
less than this. The 
wide range in prices 
is generally more 
marked on eastern 
markets than on 
western. This may 
be traced in part to 
the well-known fact 
that western produce 
which supplies 
western markets 
generally is more 
carefully graded 
and p acke d than 
eastern, because 
associations are stronger in the West and also because high freight 
rates make the marketing of inferior grades unprofitable. 
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4 21 27 3 10 22 
MAY 
5 10 22 
MAY 
22 
PRICE 
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Fig. 10. — Jobbing prices of strawberries on the St. Louis market in 
1915. 
