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Show MARKETING OF FARM CROPS Independent Action on Part of Farmer Means Wide Variation in Types of Packages and Grades. (By PROF. L. C. CORBI5TT. Horticulturist. Horticul-turist. United Stales Department of Agriculture.) The system of independent action, so far as it applies to the marketing of vegetable crops, is open to the following fol-lowing criticism: Independent action means wide variation va-riation in types of packages, as is exemplified in our markets at the present time. Packages of all sizes and descriptions descrip-tions are received in the markets from various districts, so that a quotation on a basket, hamper, or container in one market may mean -little ill another an-other section. The packing of the product is done according to the ideas of the individ ual directing the work; the grades are founded upon his personal notion of what constitutes a first, second, or third grade, judged by the product he himself handles and not by any market mar-ket standard. Shipments a-e. lor the most part, by local freight or express. Sometimes Some-times a grower is able to load a few 1 cars from his field, but this is the exception ex-ception rather than the rule. The result re-sult is that any brand which he may adopt appears in trie market at uncertain un-certain intervals, remains but a short time, and disappears until the succeeding suc-ceeding year. It is very dillicult un-'der un-'der such conditions to build up a reputation rep-utation for ones product and to establish es-tablish a standing for a brand or style of package which will serve to assist in the sale of the crop the following fol-lowing year. |
