The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1889-01-30
Oranges in Bulk.

by the carload.
There is no question but what this
plan of getting fruit to market is a good
one, if too much time is not consumed en-
route. The advantage in favor. OF the
producer would be in the items of wrap
ping, packing and boxes, and the advan-
tage to heconsumers would be thatthey
would not be compelled to take leap in
the dark, but could see every orange they
bought and buy them in any quantity
desired.
This plan seems to strike the commits
sion men quite favorably, and they are
loud in their praise of it, and say that
purchasers give boxed fruit the cold
shoulder so long as "bulk fruit is in
sight. A Baltimore commission mer-
chant says he ships his boxed fruit back
south--to North and South Carolina
and sells the bulk fruit advantageously
and without trouble.
We clip the following from the 'Balti-
more Journal of Commerce of the 10Th
inst:
sd. B. Stewart & Co., the well-known
dealers in fruits, received on Thursday,
January 10th, consignment of 46, 900
oranges in bulk from Smythe & Co., Or
| lando Station, Florida, who also have
two other shipping stations at Waldo
and Micanopy. Previous to this consign-
| ment the Messrs. Stewart & Co. received
on December Dist and December 81, 1888,
| two other carloads from Orlando Sta
| ton. The cars were unloaded with quick
dispatch at Calvert Station, and at
tracted considerable attention.
.''Mr. Stewart said to q Journal OF
Commerce reporter: 1T was at a sugges-
| ton of mine that the experiment. of ship
| ping Florida oranges to Baltimore in
bulk was acted upon, without the usual
way of wrapping them in paper and eX-
Guiding air from the cars. The oranges
were placed in cars, around the sides OF
which paper was run, and the floor was
laid with fine marsh grass. The oranges
were piled to depth ofsesaeeye three Fr5t,
The oranges came int and We're OF SUI
South .ElslI6y. They had a ready sale, but
I Just now the markets. very dull. We are
receiving oranges in boxes from Florida,
and shipping them back to the South in
North Corolina.'
era Day, freight agent of the Balti-
more & Potomac Railroad, in .referringto
the shipments of oranges in bulk from
Southern Florida to Messrs Stewart &
Co., said: This is a new departure, and
two months ago it was not thought it
could be DONE The oranges were the
finest ever saw, they were so very thin
skinned and juicy. We are prepared to
bring them not only from Orlando Sta
ton, but from any station where the
growers can make up a carload. This
new mode of shipping oranges in bulk has
it's advantages in the quick handling and
discharging of them from the cars and
the disposal of them by the consignees.
1t takes six days to dring the fruit from
Florida to Baltimore, and they always
look the same when unloaded from the
cars as when shipped from Florida They
would look the same if the cars remained
at Calvert Station for a week.
This method, however, is yet in it's ex-
perimental form, and we advise our ship
pers to go little slow with it. 1t would
be good plan, however, to test the
system thoroughly. This may be done
by "neighborhood shipments, that is by.
orange growers clubbing together and
making up a carload as a trial shipment.
In this case if the plan proved failure
no one person would lose very large
amount.