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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1870
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320 themselves. We ought to have here a Board of Trade, and be able to know the prices of previous day every day at different points. DISCOS8ION. WAKEMAN—At Milwaukee, in time of the glut at Chicago, strawberries were 28 to 31 cents in Milwaukee, and 4 to 5 in Chicago. "WOOD, of South Pass—I have been only five years in the business. I find that all the producers crowd into a promising market, and get in each other's way* We ought to organize from here to Yilla Kidge, and have concert of action. I advocated sending a man to the various points, but did not succeed in having it done. Last year Mr. Earle was sent east to effect arrangements to ship strawberries that way. He did the best he knew, and perhaps the best possible; a Michigan Central car was given us, and taken through to Detroit with a passenger train at the price of freight. The first car, which was not fall, went through in good time, and paid. The next car, which was full, broke down this side of Champaign. In the next, ice was tried, placed in a pan at the top. Another car load did not connect. I think mischief was done intentionally. Certain places never get berries from abrord. At our first meeting we voted to canvass the territory, ascertain how much Milwaukee wants, for instance, and send a whole car, but we found only 4,700 quarts of strawberries were shipped to Milwaukee, June 1st. We wanted a car to go up the main line, but on the 28th May only 2,900 quarts were sent, yet the gross shipments of strawberries from Cobden alone, were: a In 1867 In 1868 In 1869 ' 8,152 bushels. 5,816 17,774 Centralia shipped in 1869, 6,361 bushels. (10,300, says Mr. Cooper.) In view of these facts, we voted to send out a man to canvass, and have him confine himself to a certain [region^ and see if we cannot keep, say one-half of the berries we ship, out of Chicago. We ship direct to these places, save twelve hours or more, and get five cents more a quart. We find trouble from the berries brought in by the " natives " a distance of twelve miles, all bruised, badly picked, the crates
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