The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-03
Bulletins Are to Be Furnish ed Free Regarding Gen.
 eral Perishable Food
ALL LATEST PRICES
 REVIEWED BY WIRE
Birmingham Office Covers This En- tire Section and Bulletins Will Be Sent to Anyone Upon
 Application

The bureau of markets of the United States department of agriculture mas opened a branch office in Birmingham.
 Local offices of the bureau are To- cated at rooms sos 1909 Jefferson County Bank building, and are under the charge of T. c. Bushfield He Is here now set ting up the office and gettings things in shape for serving the general public with information regarding the supply demand and prices of perishable fruits and vegetables.
 With the installation of the Birming- ham branch an entire chain of stations is now in operation in the south These branches represent the first effort of the bureau to place It's service in the south, although 1t has been doing good work in the north, east and west for the past three years.
 Stations have recently been established at Atlanta, Memphis and Fort Worth. One win be established in New Orleans very shortly. These stations gather in- formation on perishable fruits and vege- tables. bulletin the information thus secured, and through the medium of the press and the mails. distribute it to the public.
 In addition to the information referred to, each daily bulletin contains infor- nation concerning shipping points con- nected with this market, and shows weather conditions, the quantity and quality of any given crop, the nature of the demand at that given point, and the number of cars shipped from all over the United States during each 24- hour period.
 BULLETIN FURNISHED FREE
 Tho commodities in the active pro- gramme. and information on which is being disseminated from the BirIning- ham office, are apples, sweet and Irish potatoes. asparagus cabbage, canta- loupes. celery, cherries. grapes, lettuce, onions, peaches pears, strawberries, wa termelons and dry beans Of course, these articles will be handled only when they are in season.
 The daily bulletins will be furnished free to anyone who will send request to the local office to have them sent to any specified address. Anyone desir- ing them for the information they con- tain regarding market conditions may secure them by simply addressing a re- quest to the Birmingham office, the Bureau of Markets, Jefferson County Bank Building.
 This work Is co-ordinated from the central office at Washington. and with the establishment of the new chain of branches in the south, the bureau is in possession of the information from all over the entire country concerning market conditions on perishable fruits and vegetables.
 In describing the work of the bureau, MT. Bushfield had this to say: The bureau of markets has started this new type of service, which is meet ing a long felt want, especially acute at this time of abnormal price of foodstuffs The bureau has styled this service the market news service, which simply means that accurate and dependable N information concerning the daily mar \ ket prices of fruits and vegetables is Y to made available to everybody by the \ representatives of the bureau with the < cooperation of the daily press and the { malls.
 N NEW TYPE OF SERVICE N ''The bureau of markets has been rem II dering very valuable service during the N past three years through their daily re, N ports of the prevailing wholesale prices II on all the larger markets of the country N Over 3,000,000 of these reports were dis N tributed to growers and shippers all over N the country last season, and have proved II of untold value to producers and to the N trade, and thus indirectly to the con sumer
 Representatives of the bureau are sta |l tioned permanently in all of the more i'm \ portant wholesale markets, and repor |s daily over our direct leased telegraph \ wires to Washington the prevailing N wholesale price, the supplies which have MI racaiya6 op ha