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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
necticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, 
Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New 
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, 
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont 
and Canadian Provinces. 
This group contains the largest con¬ 
suming markets and the most densely 
populated territory on the American Con¬ 
tinent. The population of the State of 
Pennsylvania alone exceeds by over a 
million the combined population of all the 
New England States. The all-rail grape¬ 
fruit freight rates into the principal mar¬ 
kets of this territory (taking 20c a box 
as the average freight charge from the 
average grapefruit-producing district to 
base point) varies from 64c a box to 
Philadelphia to 71c to Boston, 72c to 
Pittsburg and 73c to Buffalo, to 90c to 
Montreal, averaging per grapefruit from 
one cent (ic) to over one and a half 
cents (iy 2 c). 
CINCINNATI. 
Group 3. Population 18,250,621. In¬ 
cludes the states north of the Ohio and 
east of the Mississippi. Illinois, Indiana, 
Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin. 
Freight charges on grapefruit per box 
in carload lots run from 66c in markets 
along the river to 86c in the markets north 
of Chicago and Cleveland, making a 
slightly higher general average per grape¬ 
fruit than in Group 1. 
MISSOURI AND MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 
Group 4. Population 9,316,284. West 
of the Mississippi and south of the Mis¬ 
souri, including Arizona, Arkansas, Loui¬ 
siana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. 
Grapefruit freight rates into this ter- 
i 
ritory, with the exception of New Orleans 
(which has a rate of 50c) vary from 82.8c 
to Galveston to 91.2c per box to all Texas 
and Oklahoma common points. The aver- 
age per grapefruit per carload ranges 
from 1.48c to over 1.6c. 
ALL OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI RIVER GATE¬ 
WAYS. 
Group 5. Population 20,182,087. West 
of the Mississippi and extending to the 
Pacific Coast. California, Colorado, Ida¬ 
ho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, 
Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Da¬ 
kota, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, 
Wyoming and British Possessions. 
The freight charges on Grapefruit into 
this territory vary from 70c to 75c a box 
at points on the Mississippi River to 
$1.60 per box to the markets located in 
the States^of Utah, (1.60), Idaho (1.60), 
Oregon (1.50), Washington (1.50) and 
with charges running $1.16 to Winnipeg 
and Saskatoon. The freight charges per 
grapefruit will range from ij^c St. Louis 
to 2.85c per grapefruit where the freight 
charges -are in the neighborhood of $1.60 
per box. 
Under Florida's existing rate scheme 
there is no such thing as making a uni¬ 
form price in all markets on her products 
unless the growers equalize the cost laid 
down out of their own pockets. Unless 
the Florida initial lines and connections 
can be induced to put into effect a system 
of rates similar to those enjoyed by the 
California citrus growers, Florida pro¬ 
ducts can only enter the markets of the 
northwest with a very heavy handicap in 
the way of freight charges. The rate on 
California oranges is $1.15 per hundred 
