STRAWBERRY GROWING 
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cardboard of a different color. These tickets are given to the pickers 
according to the number of quarts picked and are later redeemed by the 
grower. 
The universal package in use in this state is the Leslie box and 
crate, each crate holding twenty-four quart boxes. These are usually 
purchased flat by the grower and made up during the winter or when 
time permits. Some kind of shelter is necessary under which the pack¬ 
ing can be done. This is usually located at one side or end of the field 
and commonly consists of a rough board shed, a tent or other portable 
structure. 
MARKETING 
A great deal of the profits in strawberry growing depends on the 
market. In.several ways a good local market is most desired. The 
fruit can be handled riper. The grower comes to know his market and 
a reputation can be established whereby the same customers can be held 
year by year. 
In a large city where a public market is maintained sales may be 
made often direct to the consumer and peddling by the grower is wholly 
unnecessary. Even in the smaller towns this may be largely avoided if 
desired by dealing with the local marketmen. 
Many of the best strawberry growing regions, however, are so 
situated that distant markets must be depended upon. In some cases 
the careful grower establishes a reputation for first class fruit in one 
or more distant cities and makes all shipments direct to the dealer. 
Where this or some other plan is not followed the commission man is 
usually employed with whom the profits are shared in the form of a 
percentage . 
The establishment of fruit growers associations in nearly all places 
that have become centers of production has greatly lightened the fruit 
growing business of the care and responsibility of marketing. This 
is particularly true where there is no large local demand and where 
distant markets must be depended upon. In this way the fruit grower 
can give his whole attention to the business of production and leave 
the marketing, a business in itself, in the hands of a qualified manager. 
In the selection of this manager the grower, if a stockholder has a 
voice.* 
The association is able to save the growers a considerable amount 
by furnishing them with supplies at wholesale and in such quantities as 
desired. Another important feature of these organizations is the 
greater uniformity in packages and grading which have thereby been 
brought about. 
These are a few of the features which together with the influence 
of the fruit growers associations, in bettering the general marketing 
conditions in favor of the grower, makes this one of the most desirable 
ways of disposing of the fruit crop. 
*See Bulletin No. 122. Colorado Experiment Station, Eruit Growers 
Associations. 
