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Show Produce Trucking Grows The truck-to-market movement Is showing steady increase, according to figures produced by the Depart-ment Depart-ment of Agriculture. Last year eight large center markets reported that the equivalent of 158,000 carloads car-loads of fruit and vegetables reached the market directly by truck, an Increase of 22,000 over the previous year. In Philadelphia, for instance, ,"0,000 cars were received re-ceived by truck, compared with 42,-000 42,-000 by railroads and boat. More than one-fourth of New York city's supplies were received In the same manner, while Los Angeles reported 27 per cent received by truck. It Is estimated that S-l per cent of the cantaloupes produced on the Eastern East-ern shore and 77 per cent of the strawberries ' also went to market by truck |