The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22
NINE MORE DAYS FOR PARK MARKET
 ID REMAIN OPEN
Jefferson County Farmers Are Anxious for Continuance of Business Through Winter.
 Doubtful of Expenses

Only nine more days remain for the housewives of Birming- ham to take advantage of the sale of fresh country produce each morning at the city mar ket at Woodrow Wilson Park.
 Commissioner John H. Taylor, whose department has had the supervision of the market during the summer months, says that the market will be closed November 1.
 From a feeble beginning with only a few farmers with their wagons at the park the city produce market has grown within the past three months until now there are between two hum dred and fifty and three hundred wagons lined mp on both sides of the
 The farmers come from all parts of the county and they report that the warm and fair weather has kept theip farms well stocked with produce of every kind.
 CANNING SEASON
 The canning season is on now. the farmers say. and this has brought on an increase in the number of buyers at the market each morning.
 Green apples and green tomatoes are reported to be the biggest sellers. Housewives and thrifty shoppers are getting down to the market by the hundreds between 4 and 5 o'clock each morning and leaving with their arms filled with baskets of produce-
 Those who possess automobiles drive up and load them with their purch ases until they themselves resemble coun- try wagons coming into the city.
 Women. with children who are not old enough to be in school, bring them to the park with special made little baskets that they can carry.
 Thirty minutes after the park opens each morning, people can be seen hur- rying in every direction with their arms and pockets filled with green stuffs of every kind.
 WINTER CONDITIONS
 Many requests have come in to both the farmers and to Commissioner Fay. Tor to try and keep the market open during the winter. Commissioner Fay Tor states that he has made a careful investigation of the conditions thai would have to be met if the market were to be continued through the win ter and says that he does not believe that it would pay for itself.
 Many of the farmers at the market in answer to the questions that are put to them, say that the farmers of the south have not, as yet, got over the habit of raising just one crop a year, and that if the market were to be con tinued through the winter months, there would not be enough produce raised in Jefferson county during these months to keep it supplied.
 But the housewives of Birmingham are buying all the fruit and produce they can while the market is well sup piled and it is believed that every homo in the city will have plenty of jars of canned goods before the winter com mes in.
 PRICES YESTERDAY
 Prices quoted at the city market yesterday are as follows: Birmingham grown celery, 75 cents dozen; single bunch, 15 cents each. Apples, 20 and 30 cents a dozen; extra large-sized cooking apples, 20 cents dozen. Pota- toes, 65 cents basket. Tomatoes 6s and 75 cents basket. Alabama grown lettuce, 10 cents a head. Rutabagas. 40 to 60 cents basket. Peanuts, 75 cents a basket. Peas, 65 cents a basket, Onions, 70 cents a bag. two dozen to the bag. Cabbage, so cents dozen punches, and 10 cents each for single punches. Dried butter beans at from 6 to 10 cents per pound. Apple cider (no kick) at 40 cents a quart.