Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-01-19 | Page 5 | Seasonal Buying for Housewives

uu SEASONAL BUYING FOR HOUSEWIVES We know little of the seasons of production, and still less of marketing market-ing conditions. A retail dealer told me not long ago that he "never knew I what to buy when he went to market, I for' he said, "when lima beans are I in season, the women want peas, and when peas are in season, the women want lima beans." In other words having no knowledge of the mnrkot, we try to make this market fit our dally menus rather 'than make our dally menus fit the market. Efficient buying, economy In the home, means a full knowledge of the seasons of production pro-duction in order to buy those things which are In season; in other words, to buy on a "down market." nil