10 BULLETIN 274, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
HAULING AND DELIVERY. 
The berries are nearly all delivered at Puyallup or Sumner, a 
small proportion at North Puyallup, Auburn, and other stations. 
They are seldom hauled more than 6 miles, and the greater portion 
less than 3. The wagons used for hauling are of various sizes and 
types, depending on the quantity of berries and the distance they 
have to be transported. Large drays provided with good springs 
are oftentimes used to haul berries from considerable distances for 
several growers. Usually each grower hauls his own berries, and 
in nearly every case Wagons or carts with springs are used for haul- 
ing. Many of the growers living within the city limits or close by 
take their berries to the canning or receiving stations in 2-wheeled 
hand carts. Figures 13 and 14 give a good idea of the different 
Fig. 9.—A yard of red raspberries trained in accordance with the Streblow system, 
using rails instead of wires for holding the bearing canes. 
types of wagons and carts used for hauling berries to the cannery 
and receiving stations. Deliveries are made oftentimes three or more 
times a day from near-by growers, but usually only once by the more 
distant ones. Every grower aims to bring all the berries picked dur- 
ing the day to the receiving stations in time to be loaded into the 
refrigerator cars for shipment on the evening of that day. Each 
grower is known by a number, which must be stamped on all shipping 
crates brought in, and all berries delivered are credited to his num- 
ber, shipped berries by number of crates and canning berries by 
weight. 
These practices are expensive of time and equipment and suggest 
the need of a cooperative plan for hauling the product. It seems 
practicable to devise an effective plan which would conserve the time 
of the grower as well as simplify the work at the receiving station, 
