The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-06-29
OUR MARKET.

the farms. should insure US good. daily
market all the year round, Sundays excepted.
When cities ere large, and are separated
from farming communities by sea, by rivers
or marshes, city people have often to CON-
plain of poor and inadequate market arrange
ments. such is the case with New York,
San Francisco, Newark and Mobile.
The city Of Albany, N. T., is one of the
finest little cities in the country is SURF ound-
ed by fine farming country, and is blessed
with splendid market system. The princi-
pal market street is so broad and the grade SO
steep that the market in the centre of it does
not detract from its healshfulness and de-
STABILITY as place for residences of the
first class.
The population of Boston, in 1928, was
little less than 60oO, mainly included within
a circuit of a mile. The surrounding country
was mostly devoted to agriculture, aud an
abundance of fruit and Vegetables were raised
within easy marketing distance. Now the
population of the city and its suburbs is
about $4,000. Faneuil Hall Market is
chiefly Wholesale, and is the great provision
exchange for New England. Of the $4,000
antilles, only 1000 buy their marketing at
Faneuial Hall, while the others buy second
hand at corner groceries, paying rather
higher than at the market house.
The market system Of New York includes
fourteen public markets. The good will Of
some of the stands are worth from SO 900
to $50 900, and some are not to be bought at
III Ill IL
them, preferring to do business outside, but
not wishing to have others occupy them.
The farmers gather around the market with
their wagons as early as Q O'Clock the morn
ing preceding market morning. They take
their positions in regular order aud pay their
fees. Producers may cell direct to hucksters,
or they may place their produce in the
hands of middlemen who dispose of it and
make returns, charging about 10 per cent.
commission for pe,ishable articles and %
cents per barrel for potatoes and apples.
Producers can sell to any other than buck
ster or a commission merchant, and can de-
liver to hotels and private houses if they
| wish.
| The following paragraph is taken from the
Agricultural Report of 1870:
| Philadelphia has for generations been noted
for the excellence of its market system. There
is law in force providing that Vegetables,
provisions, or fruits, exposed for sale shall
not have been previously purchased within
the limits of the city. When the city erects
. market house, one. third of the building
remains free for the use OF the country peo-
pie attending the market; and no fees, tolls,
or perquisites, are to oe enacted from them
for the use thereof. Persons who send o:
carry the produce of their farms I, market
may sell beef. mutton, &C., slaughtered on
their farms; and persons so selling such
meats, &C., are not liable to any fine for SELL
ing in less quantities than one quarter; pro-
vided that farmers using the stalls in the
market-houses for such purposes shall pay
q rent or compensation for each stall not
exceeding $50 per annum. The select and
common council annually elect "commis-
sioner Of market houses" No person is
allowed to sell or expose for sale elsewhere
within the market limits than in the stands
specially prov ided therefor any fruits. veQita-
l
meal, or four) which have been before pur-
chased within the city of Philadelphia. No
person exercising the trade of butcher is
permitted to occupy stand or a station
within the market house free Of rent; and no
person is allowed to offer for sale any veal,
beef, lamb, &C., unless the same is the pro-
duce of his or her own farm, upon any Of the
streets authorized for the stands for market
wagons, under penalty of $50. The stalls
and stands within the public II arket houses,
and places for which rent may be lawfully
charged. are let annually. No person is al
lowed to use steelyards or spring balances
within the market houses. No person, except
farmers bringing the produce of their farms
to market, is allowed to sell or expose for
sale any butchers meat in any streets or
other highways of the city south of Lehigh
Avenue, east of the river Schuylkill, or north
of Morris street, in any cart, wagon, &C., nor
carry about the same for sale. .~>5e "a.
"In consequence of the execution of these
regulations, the second city Of the Union has
better marketing than some towns of one
fifth her population. On Wednesdays and
Saturdays, in the afternoons, thousands If
pounds of butter, poultry, meat, and sau-
sages are sold to consumers BY farmers from
Delaware, Chester and all the counties within
| 80 miles of the city. Their butter.tubs are
larger and handsomer, the balls are fairer
and more golden, than are TO be seen in any
other city. The market houses of New York
are mu.ty old rookeries, and those of Balti-
more are sheds, compared with the elegant,
cleanly, understanding, though expensive.
buildings in which the Pennsylvania farmer
meets the consumer face to face"
Cincinnatimarkets are open each weekday
from dawn till 10 o'clock in summer, and
from s to IL in winter. Certain convenient
stands the farmers arc allowed to occupy
, with their wagons, and expose what they
have for sale. Hucksters are each required
to pay to the city license of twenty dollars q
year. Farmers pay nd license, and are sub
ject to no special restrictions. Chicago gives
the council the right to license private meat
and fish shops, and marketing stalls are
scattered promiscuously over the city.
Perhaps some of the regulations and FRO
visions mentioned above may prove beneficis
in improving our own market. REcE.
=
e The Centreviile Chronicle notices, disparag
ingly, the fact that Mr.. James r. Me X, living
/ a slight distance nearer that place than Rich
: mond, thought proper TO sign q petition t
: move the County Seat to Richmond-insinu
!. ating that he might need assistance by the wa