SELLING ON COMMISSION AND BUYING DIREC 

 FROM PRODUCERS 



J. H. KILLOUGH, XEW YORK CITY. 



The subject of marketing farm produce has of late years 

 tracted widespread discussion. It has engaged the attention 

 thoughtful students of trade economics, of those seeking to p 

 as reformers in the estimation of people misled by false and 

 aggerated statements, and of practical market men whose ] 

 manence in the distributive economy depends on their adaj 

 tion to changed and changing conditions of trade. 



DIRECT SALES TO CONSUMER IMPRACTICAL EXCEPT IN A SMALL 



In the great centers of urban population the day of dir 

 dealings between producers and consumers has long since pass 

 with insignificant exceptions having no bearing upon the m 

 problem. In the metropolitan district of ISTew York and its s 

 urbs, for instance, there may be two or three millions of poi 

 where farm products must be brought for service to the milli 

 of individuals as food; and the domestic products so required 

 drawn from all parts of our country. It is hardly necessary 

 refer to the manifest impossibility of direct dealings between th 

 myriads of consumers and more or less widely separated p 

 ducers. Clearly, the products needed by the consumers must 

 assembled in appropriate kind, quality, and quantity in dep 

 where they may be reached quickly and conveniently by mi) 

 thousands of circles of consumers throughout the length s 

 breadth of the urban communities. Even these widely scatte 

 depots, represented by retail stores, cannot to any considera 

 extent obtain their supplies directly from producers, becai 

 their requirements are selective and not of volume to permi 

 direct economical transportation, and for many other reaso 

 They must draw from other and larger depots where the gr 

 variety of farm products can be assembled, classified, and of 

 graded as to quality, and where regular supplies can be quic 

 obtained, according to the needs of their customers. These larj 



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