. Biggle berry book [microform] : small fruit facts from bud to box conserved into understandable form. Fruit-culture. 126 bigglp: bp:rry book barb, I put a printed ' Rhubarb ' card on a sign-board fastened to a post in the door-yard, where everybody can see it when passing^. When the rhubarb season is over, I put up another card, • Berries for Sale.' Next I put up ' Phims for Sale,' later 'Apples for Sale,' and so on. With this good way of advertising I sell large lots of fruit, vegetables, etc. It saves a large amount of labor in peddling the ; Shipping to Commission Mp:n.—" (
. Biggle berry book [microform] : small fruit facts from bud to box conserved into understandable form. Fruit-culture. 126 bigglp: bp:rry book barb, I put a printed ' Rhubarb ' card on a sign-board fastened to a post in the door-yard, where everybody can see it when passing^. When the rhubarb season is over, I put up another card, • Berries for Sale.' Next I put up ' Phims for Sale,' later 'Apples for Sale,' and so on. With this good way of advertising I sell large lots of fruit, vegetables, etc. It saves a large amount of labor in peddling the ; Shipping to Commission Mp:n.—" (iet in touch with fruit dealers or commission men in good markets and get them to handle the fruit," says H. H. Hume. "Either ship to them on consignment or sell to them outright. Pick good, reliable men; send them good material, treat them squarely, and you will receive like treatment in ; Yes, Init everything depends upon picking "good, reliable men," for, as many fruit growers have found to their sorrow, all commission men are not reliable. Recently a little booklet has come to my desk, entitled, " Meml^ership List, National League of Commission Merchants of the Lnited ; The headquarters of this organization are at 202 Franklin Street, New York City, and the booklets are sent free to any one who asks for them. In the book- let 1 find this statement: "Our organization lays its foundation on the personal integrity and financial responsibility of its individual members"; then follows a hst of meml)ers, and their addresses, in all the principal cities. Undoubtedly there are reliable commission firms that are not listed in the League, but unless I knew them I should prefer to take my chances on a listed firm. makketin(; 127. Well-known shippers and commission men con- tribute the following hints, which are well worth remembering : Don't ship to every strange house that sohcits your consignment, (iet a good solid house
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