The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-19

12s,570 packages; dewberries. IL
443 crates: Irish potatoes. 1ea.o1s
barrels and barrel crates; Catalogues
9O,916 packages Total packages
399,5O4.
From information in hand and
from reports sent in to me frcm the
various growers In each section. the
average gross price of strawberries to
the growers. was $500 per crate.
There were shipped 54s,70s crates
bringing TO ihis section, from straw
berries alone-the handsome sum of
81. t97,41S.00. OF this amount fully
65 per cent was paid to the growers at
the various stations in cash by buyers
at home and from abroad
From Information furnished me on
the truckers of Wilmington and other
points, and from my knowledge of the
markets Al the time of shipping. the
gross price to n growers onvegeta-
bles, namely, lettuce, beans. peas, etc.
Potatoes and cantaloupes, was about
as follows: lettuce 10000 packages,
$3.50 per package, s120,00o; beans,
peas and other vegetables, |126,570
packages, S1.00 per package, s126.570;
dewberries, 11,443 packages, or crates
$500 per crate, $22,SS6; Irish pota-
AIoes 02,01S barrels, $3.50 per barrel,
$255,045; cantaloupes 90,S16 packages.
$3.50 per package, S~136,374.- TotaI
S66O.S7s. Grand total strawberries
and truck, $~1,75S,293.
The increase in both the straw
berry and vegetable output this sea-
son, coupled with the goodpri ces OBJ
tanned, has been very gratifying TO
our people and encourages them to
greater efforts in the future.
From this great strawberry and
trucking industry alone the farmers "
Eastern Carolina have realized the
sum of s1,75S,293, and they are to be
congratulated on the system and Or
g%anization under which they work,
and which makes it possible to sue
cessifully market their crops, be they
small or large.
THE business of the season as a
whole has been a profitable n n
the final result, satisfactory"
Reports Adopted.
After reading the above reports the
same were unanimously adopted
with thanks TO the officers of the as
ISOLATION and especially Mr.. H. r.
Bauman, whose report vas the best
ever submitted.
A'motion was made last year to in
crease the members of theb GARD of
directors to 81 members, but no ac-
tiOn was taken in regard to the mat
ter. 1t was revived again today and
on motion of DIR. Porter, the rules
were suspended and h secretary
cast the entire vote for the resolution.
Hon. J. A. Brown made a motion that
nine members of the new board be
from the Chadbourn section and IL
members from the W. and w. and
A. and Y. sections. This motion was
carried and the following directors
elected.
. J. A. Westbroow, Mount Olive; I. L..
F'aiSon, Faison; w. L. Hill, Warsaw;
D. w. Russell, Rose Hill; =. F. GUS
SELL Teacheys; j. H. Moore, Burgaw;
j.. s. Westbrook, Wallace; Dr.. E. Por-
ter, Rocky Point;W. E. Springer and
H. T. Bauman, Wilmington; DR.. Geo.
F. Lucas, Currie; S. H. Strange, Fay
e~ttevifle; J. A. Brown, w. F.. Thigpen
and NJ. F. Leonheart, Chadbourn;
d. Roughner, H. L. Struthers, CRISIS;
r. c. Powell, Whiteville; j. G.. White,
Wards; S. ]. Sarvis, Mt. Tabor; D. L.
williamson, Cerro Gordo.
DIr Z w. Whitehead offered Il
resolution which had as it's object the
establishment of a weather bureau in
this city. similar to those now eStab-
Eished in other great fruit districts like
San Francisco, st. Louis, and Detroit,
with regular trucking bulletins. The
resolution urges upon the members of
both houses of congress from this state
to do all inthe ir power towards es-
tablishring a weather bureau of the
above description in Wilmington be-
fore The next berry season. The
resolution was unanimously carried.
Mr.. Franklin Seman, state ento-
mologist and Professor Toward Hume,
who is connected with the department
of agriculture, were both present by
invitation and addressed the body on
horticulture and they also made spe-
cial reference to insects, pests etc.
the methods displayed to exterminate
them and the result of experiments by
the department of agriculture. The
talks were very Instructive and wer.
attentively listened to.
4 vote of thanks was rendered tbs
| gentlemen from the agricultural depart
| ment by the association. After the ad-
| dresses by the above nurred gentlemen,
| the association adjourned.
Directors Meeting.
After the adjournment of the stock.
holders the board of directors met AMI
reelected the following officers for tin
ensuing rear:
President-W. Z. Hill, Warsaw.
Vice President-w. E. Springer, Will
mington.
Secretary-H. T. Bauman, Whining
ton.
Tr~easurer-s. H. Strange, Fayeste
Vile.
Executive Committee-W. l.. Hill
chairman; w. E. Springer, secretary
w. e. Thigpen, J. A. Brown, J. a
Westbrook and J. 3. Westbrook.
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