MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTION OF STRAWBERRIES. 19 
tricts shipping more than 175 cars. It will be 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 
area 
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. 
