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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
just and reasonable rate and refund of 
excessive charges applied on a car shipped 
by a member in December, 1914, to Line- 
ville, Ala. The delivering railroad based 
its charges on the through rate from ship¬ 
ping* point to Talladega, Ala., which point 
is 29 miles beyond Lineville, Ala., plus 
an interstate class arbitrary back to desti¬ 
nation, thus making a through rate of 
75.6 cents per box—7.6 cents box higher 
than rate from shipping point to Chicago, 
Ill., that was established a few years ago 
by the Commission. Reparation to the 
extent of $76.80 has been asked for, and 
if this is granted, it will mean a net profit 
to the grower of approximately 11 cents 
a box. It will cost the League at least 
$50.00 to handle this case to a conclusion, 
and while on the surface it may seem un¬ 
wise to some, the fact should not be over¬ 
looked that a favorable decision would 
carry with it the establishment of a 
reasonable rate by which further business 
may be had at the point in seasons to 
come. It is worth while mentioning here 
that had not the rate been so unreasonable 
the shipper could have disposed of several 
more cars. 
PUBLICATION OF THROUGH RATES ON 
FRUITS, PINEAPPLES AND VEGETABLES, 
ALSO REFRIGERATION CHARGES, FROM 
FLORIDA SHIPPING POINTS TO TEXAS, 
OKLAHOMA, ARKANSAS AND LOUISIANA. 
This is a matter that has been agitated 
for years, but we are still without through 
rates on account of inability of the rail¬ 
roads to reach harmonious understanding 
as to by whom they will be published. 
We all know of the great difficulty ex¬ 
perienced in successfully marketing our 
products in that rapidly developing south¬ 
western section, and that our apparently 
slow progress has been due to our com¬ 
plex rate facilities. The railroads them¬ 
selves admit inability to quote the through 
rates correctly at all times. The simpli¬ 
city of the rate arrangement from Cali¬ 
fornia has enabled that state often to take 
orders which our shippers should have 
had. The League, in conjunction with 
the traffic departments of some of the 
marketing agencies, has been conducting 
an extensive campaign during the past 
four months for publication of through 
rates in a simple way so that everyone will 
be in a position to determine rates when 
desired., and as a result we feel almost 
certain in saying to you at this time that 
the rates will be available for next season. 
RATES, CITRUS FRUITS AND PINEAPPLES 
TO WESTERN CANADA. 
Prior to last fall through rates to a 
limited number of markets in this section 
were being published in Florida Orange- 
Pineapple Tariff. Those rates, however, 
represented nothing more than sum of the 
rates to St. Paul-Minneapolis and the local 
beyond. By reason of a controversy be¬ 
tween our lines and the western Canadian 
roads, through rates were eliminated from 
the tariff on December 5th last. We 
handled this matter with both interests 
and were able to have rates established to 
all the markets in Alberta, Saskatchewan 
and Manitoba that are approximately 40 
cents per box less than those formerly in 
effect to a limited number of markets. 
We arranged with the Florida lines to 
