Show SMALLER CITIES ARE E BEST BUYERS lr by br lh the Ih United tinned St St. SUte t p St t of Agriculture Peach growers are ud advised by hy the United d I States Deportment Department of Agriculture ture to lop dove the HIP small and ond medium medium- sized 1 markets Records on the lie distribution distribution dis dis- dis- dis of ot J ears cars or 88 83 per percent percent cent of ot the tire from Georgia In 1 1121 show how that approximately W 10 per percent percent cent of ot the tIre peaches went to cities of ot more than thun population while only 7 per cent went weart to cities with populations between ell and Only 1 per Iter cent went to cities with population and anal and less than 1 per cent went to cities or boroughs of ot less than population Smaller markets ts were nevertheless ne utilized by the tIre Georgia growers rowers in 1021 1024 much mare Dore than In former years This action although It did not trot wholly prevent Ions on all th the movement mo of ot an na exceptionally large crop kept the losses down considerably Up VII to August August Au Au- gust gUilt 10 last j-eur j only cars of Georgia peaches penches were unloaded In hr New NewYork NewYork NewYork York city compared with Unloaded un un- un loaded th there re In irk 1121 1 ant and shipments worl wore were curs cars lighter New York received only 23 per cent of ot Georgias Georgia's carload peach poach shipments In 1024 compared compared com corn pared with 30 SO per cent In iii 1021 1121 and receipts In Philadelphia and Chicago were similarly reduced In general the movement mo to western markets was wash h heavier an and 1 that to eastern markets lighter Further effort In this direction says the department nt ought greatly to assist In the tho profitable distribution of ot the peach crop An n Idea of ot what might be done can be bo gained from tram the fact that while practically every city of t more than thun population within shipping distance received Georgia peaches In 1024 only one half of at the cities of at from to population population lation In the distribution area received re reo c Georgia peaches In carlots Among the available markets having a population between and 2000 less than thun one-eighth one received carload lots of ot peaches peach s from Georgia Peach growers In New York state utilized the smaller markets to somewhat somewhat somewhat some some- what better advantage th than n did those of ot Georgia Only 64 04 per cent of ot New NewYork's NewYork's NewYork's Yorks York's 1024 1124 peach shipments went to cities of ot more Dore than population I tion and 17 per cent found a market I In cities of ot between and population Eleven per cent of ot the shipments went to cities of ot from fro to and 8 per per cent to cities and towns of ot less than population New York peaches In carlots reached cities of ot between and population Georgia on the other hand with total shipments almost four tour Umes 1 large as or or Ti supplied only 72 12 cities that of-that A majority of ot the peach producing states disposed of ot from 30 to 6 GT Gi per percent percent percent cent of their shipments In 18 large cities While large cities will probably continue continue continue con con- to be the Important carlot markets markets mar mar- kels for tor pen peaches chell the advantage of ot developing developing de de- de- de I the smaller markets says the department should not be ov over over- r. r looked |