STRAWBERRY SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION IN" 1914. 3 
Benton Harbor to St. Joseph, Mich., reported 225,000 cases by boat, and 
this was tabulated as an equivalent of 225 carloads. The figures for 
the Norfolk region were obtained mainly from the various selling asso- 
ciations, and it is believed that they include the shipments by boat. 
Our designation of the various shipping districts is arbitrary, but is 
believed to follow in general the custom of the trade. The point at 
which the largest shipments originate, or the point at which the 
industry first attained commercial importance, usually gives its name 
to the entire shipping district which later grows up around it. This 
is exemplified by the Independence district in Louisiana and the 
Judsonia district in Arkansas. These are the names best known to 
the trade in the markets where the bulk of these berries are handled. 
Experience with the proposed news service may enable a better 
system of designation for points of origin to be developed, but for the 
present the usages of the trade will be followed. 
The accompanying map indicates the actual shipments in the 
season of 1914. Each dot represents five cars, except in counties 
showing only one dot, in which cases the dot may represent from one 
to five cars. These dots are grouped in the county in which the 
station is located, although it is well known that production does not 
actually follow the county lines. In cases where the shipments were 
too heavy to be represented by dots, the counties have been blacked 
in and the actual number of cars shipped given in figures. The size 
of the blackened area is not directly in proportion to the quantity 
shipped, as the tabulation plainly shows. This is noticeably apparent 
in the case of California. Thus, from the Santa Clara-Santa Cruz 
section approximately 1,500 cars were shipped in 1914, while from 
the Castleberry section but 177 cars were shipped; yet on the map 
the blackened areas appear equal. This apparent discrepancy arises 
from the necessity of treating the county as the unit when presenting 
data on an outline map. 
The dates within which the various areas ship are shown by curved 
lines, all of the areas shipping at a given period being grouped into 
a zone under the line representing that period. Regular commercial 
shipments, other than from Florida, commence in March in Texas 
and Louisiana, gradually moving north until the season ends in July 
with the berries from northern Wisconsin. This statement excludes 
Colorado and California, where the shipping season is greatly pro- 
longed. The map thus shows at a glance from what sections each 
producing area may expect the keenest competition. 
This same information is illustrated in a different manner by the 
chart on page 5. In this chart the length of each figure from left to 
right shows the season in which car-lot shipments move from the district 
named. The areas represent graphically the number of cars shipped 
and are based on the figures opposite in the right-hand column. 
