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

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seasons well as far as in his power,
there is no question. and We withhold
no credit that is due him. We simply
want him more in evidence as our vast
interests demand"
The report continues:
From all the information We can
gather from our people as shippers AMI
from receivers at the other end, and
from our own observations an experi-
enee, the service of the railroad compa-
MES as a rule, was some Improvement
over former years. The Atlantic Coast
Line set the pace. as usual, for MAIN
tanning the schedules, and il is up TO
the connections of this company to ex-
plain and shoulder the responsibility
for quite a number or delays which oc.
CURED beyond Richmond and Washing
ton. That delays are less frequent
than formerly. and that with an in
creased business each year,
US to hope, that with double tracks
from Contentnea to South Rocky Mount
and from Richmond 10 Washington,
now rapidly being constructed, we can
look forward to an almost perfect ser
vice all along the line.
The service OF the Fruit Grower.
Express or refrigeration, was good and
the attention given this most important
branch of their business highly salts
| factory.
The service Of the Southern Express
Company. was in a marked degree su,
perior TO that OF their connections
(Which was the worst in years. and
il Is unfortunate that they should De
So badly handicapped by the Adams
Express Company in the dispatch CT
our business.
Mr. u. W. Whitehead, the edito Of
our official organ, The Carolina Truck
and Fruit Growers Journal, has been
dilligent in the conduct of h paper.
and Jealous for the welfare of the As
and growers at large, in
every particular. We commend him for
the outspoken and fearless champion.
ship of our course whenever the occa>
sion arose VIZ recommend to all
growers a livelier interest in this"
In conclusion the report says:
ana now a word as to our Business
Agent, Mr.. II. T. Bauman, who has
served us SO faithfully and efficiently
for the past eight years, and ito whom
We are Indebted in a large Measure for
our success. Familiar with the funda.
mental principals Of transportation,
and by personal contact during the
past eight years with the growers at
this end of the line and the receivers
at the other, he enjoys an acquaintance
at both ends of the line aHong the Ship
pers and receivers, such as can ONLY be
iOO IlOIE dCludt SADCT1cuc6, and II
therefore in position to render a service
as nearly ideal in every particular as
we could ask. AS some one has well
and truly Sadi, Mr.. Bauman knows
when, how and where to get in his
work and performs it in a way that pro-
duces results. For the splendid mamie,
with which lie handled the vast straw
berry shipments last season from South
Rocky Mount, preventing a glut of any
of the markets. when one days figures
reached the ~stupendous figures of PA
solid car loads of strawberries, we
would especially offer our congratulate
TONS. His statistical gatherings as 10
the volume of business from this terri
tory are hone the less valuable to this
association, and we would urg upon the
growers throughout this territory 10
promptly respond to his call for infor-
nation of every kind"
Business Agent Bauman's Report.
For eight years Mr.. H. T. Beauman.
has been business agent of the asso-
citation When he became business
agent the mou received from he
berry crop We're comparatively small
and now it reaches more than two
million dollars. Zach season Mr.. Bau-
man has headquarters at Rocky Mount
and directs all the berry shipments
and to him are the farmers Que thanks
Tor the rich returns they have receiv-
ed during recent years.
Mr.. Bauman is ever watehfulJo of rhe
interest of the truck farmer and he IS
always e~ndeavoring to secure for them
better facilities for handling their
crops and also cheaper rates. Every
spring just before the opening of the
strawberry season Mr. Bauman visits
the different commission houses to
/ which berries are shipped from this
section and in that way the commits
sion merchants and the shippers are
brought closer together.
The report, as submitted by AIR.
Bauman, is very interesting, and espe-
cially SO to truckers, but lack Of space
forbids our using it in it's entirety. so
only a few of the most interesting
facts from it will be given.
The total acreage planted in straw
berries in 1894 was 6,S35 acres, against
6,4I4 acres in 1903. The total number
of crates shipped in 1904 was 54S, 10s
against against 493, 734 in 1903. There
was an increase in the general aver
age per acre also. In 1904 the average
was 50 crates to the acre and in 1870;
Il crates. The net increase in tn:
number of acres over 1908 was "a, SO;
or 165 cars.
The strawberry distribution thi:
eason was even superior t Othat o
last year INT embraced many new
markets. At no time was there 81
Over-Suppfy in any one market. al
though our daily shipments for quit
a period, were something almost start
ling. Take the memorable 10th o
May when PA refrigerator cars .
strawberries passed through Rock,
Mount. 40 went to New York, 20 t
Boston, q tt Philadelphia, 20 to Pitts
, burg, Is to Buffalo, 8 to Newark, Z t
Providence, 6 to Cleveland. and III
, balance, from one to five cars each, t
5 New England, Interior New Yorl
Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Wester
i, | and Canadian markets. In no instane
II was any one market glutted. Thi
= held good also on other days when IA
10, 131, 136, 100, and 100 refrigeratc
cars respectively, were forwarded frcl
I South Rocky Mount. That the dali
} information sent out in form of bu
: letins, kilograms, telephones and lie
{, tiers to the various shipping and r
. ceiving points, is the keynote to TIL
: distribution, is conceded by all withol
4 which chaos and disaster would a