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coming- out to my farm iu an automobile and I always liked 

 to have them come back again. I have tried not to be ex- 

 orbitant in selling them the fruit, giviiig them a little lower 

 jjrice than the price at the market. You must remember 

 that we are paying nothing for transportation and I think 

 we might do well to make them a present of a few small 

 baskets of fruit, give them a small basket when we sell them 

 tour or five dollars' worth. 



MRS. STORROW : Excuse me, but I think we want 

 justice and not favors. 



A MEMBER: Perhaps I might speak just a word on 

 that line of this retail marketing. We found that the people 

 who came in the automobiles would not pay as much as we 

 could get Avholesale in Boston for it. 



THE CHAIRMAN : You must have a bad class of auto- 

 niobilists: we get along much better than that out our way. 



A MEMBER : T would like to ask Mrs. Storrow if the 

 average consumer in the city knows when the flood season 

 t\L perishable products is on ? That is, there is a time that 

 the producer knows when Elberta Peaches are flooding the 

 market, there is a time when strawberries are flooding the 

 market, but does the average house-wife in her home know 

 when that season is at its height and attempt to take advan- 

 tage of that? 



MRS. STORROW: I think the average house-wife is a 

 terribly ignorant person. (Laughter). I don't think she 

 knows nuich of anything if you take into account the house- 

 wives of the city who have never seen the country and know 

 nothing whatever about crops. They know that there may 

 be a supply that sends the prices down, but that is the most 

 they can be expected to know. 



THE CHAIRMAN: It seems to me that she is frequent- 

 ly lacking even that knowledge ; there may be a flood on, 

 but she does not get any inkling of it in the price she has to 

 pay. 



MR. PALMER: There are two or three experiments of 

 this kind that have been made, trying to educate the con- 



