The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1889-03-21
POINTS FOR TRUCKERS
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POINTS FOR TRUCKERS.
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We learnad by converting with,
some Of the above parties that the
truck frora our section Is equal in
quality to any, but we often fail to
get AZ good prices on account of the
boses or packing. Beans, or any
thing else In bright. clean, neat
box always sell first, though the
quality may net be SO good as some
others which are in dirty, dingy
box. The grocer does not want such
a box in his store, knowing we'll that
the customer will always avoid such
a box wheL making purchases.
Again, we should always give good
measure, for by falling to put in ten
cents worth of beans we often los
twenty five cents on the box.
From what we learn here we ad.
wise those shipping berries to suse
the gift crate. There are now i'm
mense quantities oflast years crates
tstandard) here unsold and in the
way, while no doubt many Of the
parties who shipped these crates
here think they were sold and that
they had received the money for
them. The receiver who reported
that he had not sold your crates pro-
baly acted fairer with you than the
one who reported that he had. In
other words, some receivers fool you
to satisfy you. Let US illustrate !:
You ship a crate of huckleberries,
the censignce gets II cents per quart,
he can't sell the crate, but he knows
you will rot be satisfied If he does
not, so he makes out the bill:
32Qts of berries = 9 7-16c, So OF
I Crate, 'S 50
'.,sr,t>
l..2 j. Total, So 81
/ While your berries alone brought
ss.52. You are ready now to say
that such a man is dishonest-that
he stole your crate. But such may rot
the case. He may not desire to mis-
represent the case, but he under
stands human nature and knows tina.
| you will not continue to ship to him
unless he sells(?) your crate. He
rents store or warehouse and piles
away these crates, hoping to sell
them sometime, but the rent on the
Storage room often cost as much as
the crates bring. Here room is ev-
erything aud these crates are quite a
nuisance. So you see by this opera
ton we lose the crate entirely and
by using the gift crate We wonld not
loose 80 much. In addition the
fruit in a gift crate sells better.
When a dealer buys fruit in stand.
ard crate he has to deposit so cents
with thu receiver to insure the re-
turn of the crate. When the grocer
buys from the dealer he must do the
same thing. Then when the consul
mer comes to the grocer and wishes
j a quart Of strawbelies he can't gel
the basket but must pour them in a
paper bag. All this is consipera.
BILE nuisance, and therefore the gro
Ger will pay more for berries in 6
gift crate than il standard crate
We learn that there is more de
mand for Irish Potatoes in June thar
| for anything else we could ship.
! Sweet Potatoes Jersey SweeD sci
! for 81. Is and $500 per barrel three
bushels.
Tomatoes are worth $500 a bushe
!; in April. y
4 So you see that there are a num-
Der: of things we might ship to al
advantage.
+ The shape of the be an box make
little difference, so that is full mea
sure. Ventilation is some better il
the octaginAl box.
!, But we must stop as our article il
+ already too long. NJ. B
1--WE would have published tn
above several weeks since, but hav
not had room before. Ed.