REPORT OF STATE HORTICULTURIST. 49 



MARKETS. 



H. A. Emerson of New York City, Department of Foods and 



Markets. 



It is a pleasure for me to be in this beautiful Maine city, 

 and to confer and discuss with you the problems of marketing 

 the great apple crop which this state annually turns out. 



Representing, as I do at this time, the Honorable John T. 

 Dillon, Commissioner of the New York State Department of 

 Foods and Markets, and six million consumers in the city of 

 New York, and about four million other consumers in the 

 smaller cities of our state, as well as the cities closely adjacent 

 to New York city, which are supplied through the New York 

 city market, I can assure you that our interest in your welfare 

 is very great. 



Experts, who have carefully figured out this constantly in- 

 creasing consumption, tell us that, with the present rapid 

 growth of our cities, we will need in New York City twenty 

 years from now. for distribution in the city proper and its 

 suburbs, fully double the amount of food stufifs that we now 

 require. 



The consumers of our great city, we estimate, paid $1,200,- 

 000,000 for foodstuffs in 191 5 in the City of New York proper. 



In 1910, there was such an extraordinary amount of com- 

 plaint regarding the high cost of living, among the consumers 

 residing in our great cities in the State of New York, that the 

 legislature, through Governor Dix, caused to be appointed a 

 committee to investigate into the high cost of living, the causes 

 for the same, and the economics that might be put into operation 

 to lessen this cost, if any could be found. 



After many months of investigation they reported to the 

 Governor and the legislature that they had found the present 

 method of receiving, marketing and distributing foodstuffs in 

 New York City was very crude, expensive and out of date. 



