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"the first offering of asparagus appeared today and 

 sold quickly. Supplies of eggs, green onions, rhubarb 

 and potatoes were heaviest, with butter, apples, and 

 poultry coming next. Demand was heaviest for eggs, 

 asparagus, rhubarb and poultry. Potatoes were not 

 wanted, and other vegetables M'ere almost entirely 

 lacking. Apples of very ordinary quality sold well, 

 the supply being light. One farmer was selling 

 tomato and lettuce plants for transplanting, also 

 home-grown radish-seed and grass-seed. Dahlia 

 bulbs were also offered. . . . Butter was slightly 

 weaker, most sales made at 50.'*^ Then follow price 

 quotations for commodities sold on the market. 

 This market reporter is posted in the market and is 

 mailed to some fifty local producers.'- 



The Detroit Board of Commerce adverts to the 

 opinion of transportation experts that Detroit ranks 

 ninth among the transportation centers of the United 

 States, although ranking fourth in population and 

 third as an industrial center ; and it believes that 

 this situation demonstrates "the desperate need of 

 the Michigan metropolis for better means of ingress 

 and egress, for materials and passengers." ^ The 

 Board puts the num.ber of industries in Detroit's 

 industrial district at 3,000, of which 1,411 have pri- 

 vate railway sidings, having a combined capacity of 

 17,184 cars. The city is served by fifteen railroads, 



^ For a description of the farmers' market in Ann Arbor, 

 see The Michifinn farmer. Aiifj. 27. 1921, p. 3-175; Burd: 

 "The Value of a Farmers' Curb Market." 



'^Detroit and World Trade, Detroit, 1920, 35. 



