Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . Kingsville, Harrow and Tilbury. These fiveompanies gradually came to see they could work toetter advantage together, just as the individual, rowers could work to better advantage culmination was the uniting of the five com--inies into the Erie Co-operative Company Limited,ith head offices at company has grown until itiw comprises some three hundredmd fifty grower-members, and mar-kets ninety-five per cent, of the pro-ice of South Essex. During thisist summer a new branch was es-blished at Blenheim to handle theitput of the
Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . Kingsville, Harrow and Tilbury. These fiveompanies gradually came to see they could work toetter advantage together, just as the individual, rowers could work to better advantage culmination was the uniting of the five com--inies into the Erie Co-operative Company Limited,ith head offices at company has grown until itiw comprises some three hundredmd fifty grower-members, and mar-kets ninety-five per cent, of the pro-ice of South Essex. During thisist summer a new branch was es-blished at Blenheim to handle theitput of the recently developedlion fields on the Rondeau Marsh. The Method of Selling TpHE chief products marketed through the Erie Company are tomatoes and onions. The Learning- By J. C. NEALE products—cucumbers, peppers, etc.—and such othercrops as cabbage, sweet corn, new potatoes, andfruits. The total volume of business for 1919 was$650,000, and that with the onion crop well nigh a fail- I ERIE CO-OPERATIVE CO. af\ LIMITED 3y LEAMINGTON. A reproduction of the members stamp, and a properly stampedbasket ure. This year with the good crop of onions and theaddition of the Blenheim crop, the total business willapproximate a million dollars. sets the price for the following day. He wires backthis price together with information as to approxi-mate available quantities to the agents. They sellat these prices the next morning and wire back thequantity required early in the afternoon. This per-mits the loading of cars for the evening train in sucha manner that the stuff goes through with a mini-mum of handling. Everything is sold point ofshipment. There are no consignments to commis-sion houses. And, particularly on the long hauls,the shipping of carloads effects a tremendous savingon express charges. Nx>t all of the stuff, however,goes to the large city markets. A considerablequantity is shipped direct to the smaller towns. Tofacilitate this latter trade, a printed circular
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