566 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



General economic conditions with high wages, scarcity of labor^ 

 and abundance of money in circidation, have not in the last few 

 years been such as to inchice either producers or consumers to take 

 advantage of such savings as may be effected by marketing direct 

 from the producer to the consumer. 



CITY MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTION. 



At the request of municipal officials, city planning commissions, 

 market committees, farmers, and other interested parties, surveys 

 looking to the establishment of better marketing systems for perish- 

 able farm products were made in Memphis, Tenn., Atlanta, Ga., 

 Kansas City, Mo., Freehold, N. J., and Indianapolis, Ind. In each 

 case recommendations were made to the municipality on the facts 

 determined in the survey. Plans for improving the market in 

 Savannah, Ga., were considered at a conference attended by repre- 

 sentatives of the city of Savannah and of this bureau. After the 

 conference, the bureau representatives suggested certain modifica- 

 tions in these plans and furnished sketches embodying their ideas. 

 Advice was given by corresj^ondence to other communities which 

 could not be visited. 



In many of the communities mentioned above investigations were 

 made of existing marketing systems and of methods employed in the 

 distribution of certain products. Desirable and undesirable points 

 were noted and data w^ere collected for use in service work and for 

 incorporation in bulletins which were in course of preparation. 

 Similar investigational work was carried on in Detroit, Mich., where 

 promising activities are under way looking to the development of a 

 complete municipal marketing system; and in Toledo, Ohio; In- 

 dianapolis, Ind.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Rochester, N. Y. ; St. Louis, 

 Mo."; Allentown, Pa.; Adrian, Mich.; and Welborn, Kans. Data 

 were collected from other communities by correspondence. 



This work was directed by Mr. McF. Kerbey. On account of the 

 general reduction in funds, it was necessary to discontinue the project, 

 on June 30, 1920. 



PUBLICATIONS DURING THE YEAR. 



DEPARTMENT BULLETINS. 



825. Rural Conimunitv Buildings in the United States, 1920. 

 857. A. Modified Boerrier Sampler, 1920. 



860. The Organization of Cooperative Grain Elevator Companies, 1920. 



861. Marketing Eastern Grapes, 1920. 



864. A Peach Sizing Machine, 1920. 



865. A Classiflcatian of Ledger Accounts for Creameries, 1920. 

 873. Shrinkage of Market Hay, 1920. 



882. Manufacturing and Laboratory Tests to Produce an Improved Cotton Air- 

 plane Fabric. 1920. (In press.) 



FARMERS* BULLETINS. 



1080. Preparation of Barreled Apples for Market. 1919. 



1091. Protection of Potatoes from Cold in Transit— Lining and Loading Cars.. 



1919. (Revision of Markets Document 17.) 

 1118. Dockage under Federal Wheat Grades. 1920. 

 1334. Castrating and Docking Lambs. 1920. (In cooperation with the Bureauv 



of Animal Industry.) 

 1144. Cooperative Marketing. 1920. 



