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Retail Public Markets
Title
Retail Public Markets
Date
1915
Relation
Yearbook of Agriculture, 1914
pp. 167-184
Creator
Excerpt
The success of a public market often depends upon the size and character of its "farmers' line" (PL X, fig. 1). There seems to be an innate desire on the part of housewives to buy from the producer and in the open. Consequently
it behooves a city to study the tributary rural population. If a good truck-growing section is already developed within driving distance, there should be no trouble about lack of supplies for the market, unless the growers produce their crops in such large quantities that they are forced to sell at wholesale. If there is little truck growing in the region, however, methods of encouraging the farmers to take up that work should be employed. Such an outlet for products as a good public market creates is, in itself, an incentive to growers to engage in truck-crop production and usually aids greatly in developing a near-by food supply.
it behooves a city to study the tributary rural population. If a good truck-growing section is already developed within driving distance, there should be no trouble about lack of supplies for the market, unless the growers produce their crops in such large quantities that they are forced to sell at wholesale. If there is little truck growing in the region, however, methods of encouraging the farmers to take up that work should be employed. Such an outlet for products as a good public market creates is, in itself, an incentive to growers to engage in truck-crop production and usually aids greatly in developing a near-by food supply.
Subject
Publisher
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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