| Show FARM AND HOUSEHOLD SELLING GARDEN STU 0 TO CONSUMERS the mo more tle nay tan lull aud corn adulterated honey euln ces cei st k notes and house hold eold mota selling truck american farmers have some queer e actions and among them is the one 6 that it is small business to sell gar den stuff directly to the consumers if the average farmer could sell truck to the corner grocer in his village it would not hurt his feelings at all but before he will peddle out a load that thai would yield him a profit ho he will spend his time raising wheat and sell it at less than it would would cost him I 1 live near a village village of less than 2000 inhabitants and have been told dozens of times that truck farming would not pay in this vicinity because there theme was no market near I 1 did not believe this for while I 1 have not been eai engaged as a relar regular u truck fa farmer amerl 1 have always raised more truck in my garden than my family could consume and I 1 have had no ho trouble in disposing of it at a good price to private vate e families I 1 this merest accident one dy day I 1 was at the grocery when some one came in and asked for some green peas the grocer told him that helian ordered them from the city but could not get any as the market was stripped of them I 1 had a lot of them in in my garden and said so and the grocer asked me to go home and get them 11 he e said if I 1 had zay any string beaus beans to spare to 0 bring them along writer bort bert carroll in the farmers voiced T V went home and picked a bu bushel libel ot each peas and beans and was back with them in two hours and got bot 2 for the lot the hotel keeper saw me bring them in and as cassed I 1 passed the hotel he told me that he would like I 1 for me to bring him anything in the way 0 of f erdei truck that I 1 might hav har to spare and he would take it at the price he had L to pay va at the grocers as he to get it fresh and I 1 got to taking something to him whenever I 1 went i to town and I 1 found found that it ai was easing up on the cash drain for family supplies wonderfully one d day ay as I 1 ivas was talking to the landlord as ha bekai evv ita rj r j rj ri t f i ja atac na 1 marked that he would like to have some cottage cheese and I 1 said that my wife knew how to make the best I 1 ever ate the landlord said he loved it dearly and wished I 1 would bring some in the next time I 1 went to town I 1 took in two quarts and he gave me half a dollar for it and after that and to this day that hotel takes all the cottage cheese we can furnish at the same price then w we a got to selling eggs and butter to the hotel and to others and I 1 worked up quite a trade in tho the town last leaion season I 1 had other things to attend to and could not raise g garden arden truck and a young man in my neighborhood bo whose father is a farmer failed in health and gave up regular farm work for the year but to have something to fill in the timo time with worked what he was able on a truck patch t that nat was laid out on one side of a field As his stuff got ready for use he found that he had been so BO successful that he was going to have a large surplus and he concluded to try to sell it in the village and he not only sold all that he could spare but he be bought the surplus of all the neighbors and eold that now he finds his health restored and as the result of his work for tho the year he has more money than he would have had if ho he had raised regular farm crops no one thinks the less of him because he be has been a truck peddler and the people in the village are better off because they have had fresh vegetables delivered at their doors I 1 do not notice but my are as cordial to me as they would be it if I 1 raised large fields of wheat instead of small areas of berries and truck if they think any less of me they have an admirable way of concealing their feeling and I 1 am not the wiser this I 1 know in my own vicinity truck farming is coming into favor with everybody except the grocers who find their trade in vegetables interfered with by the supplies that are brought from the country tho the vi village people only buy of them now when they cannot get a supply from the country I 1 |
