The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-25

Different types of farmers markets attract different groups of farmers.
 The truck growers likes to haul full loads and make quick sales in large lots his time is more valuable on his farm
 than in acting as his own salesman in disposing of his load in small quantities
 to the consumer.
 Retail farmers markets appeal to farm CTS who raise fruit and vegetables only as a side line-they, or members of their
 families, often can spare the time it
 takes to sell small lots direct 10 the housewife.
 The location of the farmers retail mar
 ket is important It must be in a place easily reached by large numbers of con-' sumers.
 Mixed wholesale and retail markets may prove unsatisfactory unless hours for
 selling are regulated so that there will
 be no conflict, and different groups of
 producers will be encouraged to come in
 at different times, according to whether
 they sell in large or small lots.
 In attacking the cost of living prob
 lem through local public markets, com
 munities might well give heed to definite
 underlying principles that are known to
 apply to such marketing institutions. Cn~
 less one is familiar with the flow of farm
 produce from the country into the mar
 ket basket the distinction between farm
 CTS retail market and farmers whole
 sale market" is not drawn, but both may
 be called a farmers market' and pie
 tured as one and tKe same in their op- eration and function.
 Some communities have tried to change
 farmers wholesale markets into retail markets where the housewife could fill her market basket with purchases made fa llyRsl a4 e1 iflsr to her. These attempts have usually re- suited in failure and a deal of friction between the public, the farmers and of- ficials because, according to city market ing men of the hurcSu.sF markets, United State department of agriculture the farmers wholesale market is very diff ferent institution from farmers re- tail market
 A farmers wholesale market draws 10 it producers who specialize in truck crops and fruits, and who count on hauling corn, potatoes tomatoes, apples, straw berries or other crops in large quan- titles. They desire quick sales in large lots after they reach the market so they can return to their homes and the work of production Time to such growers IS more valuable than the difference be- tween what they get in wholesale duantl-
 ties for their products and what lhey might realize by lingering long enough to
 retail their load ill small lots at hlshef than wholesale prices.
 Retail farmers markets, on the other hand, attract group of producers who raise a small amount of fruit or Yege- ables as side line and whose other crops do not demand as close attentloh as those of the truck raiser Often farmer who raises only few VeSetaples can send them to retail farmers mar ket in mixed lots, by member Of ms family. who is able to remain away from the farm long enough to dispose oI these products to housewives carrying market baskets
 The retail farmers market depends as much for it's success upon location as on any other factor. It must be eonVen- tent for the housewife, while wholesa,e farmers market need not be as centrally located, because dealers have wagons or trucks with which to gather then supplies. Farmers wholesale markets are an early morning institution, start ing business at daybreak or even before while a farmers retail market starts later and runs for a longer time. This of course, may make possible mixed