The freight from California to the East is bearing hard on California fruit growers. Of one car containing 1,660 boxes, large consignments were forwarded to Cleveland, Boston, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, St. Paul, Baltimore, Indianapolis, Buffalo, Memphis and other places. The cherries brought from 17½ to 25 cents per pound, according to grade, and were being sold by retailers at from 30 to 40 cents per pound.

There is very little margin left for growers at the above figures unless freights are lowered; but the probability is that if the freights were lowered, the prices would fall lower than those quoted above. It is the disposition to cut under one's neighbor that everywhere prevails, that lowers profits quite as much as high freight rates.