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more large terminal markets owned by the State 

 or the city. They should be located on the rail- 

 roads and water-fronts. They should be built over 

 the tracks so that produce could be unloaded easily 

 and placed in temporary or permanent storage. 

 The terminal warehouses should be operated by the 

 department of markets which should receive and 

 sell consignments from inland points. These ter- 

 minal warehouses should be of adequate size for all 

 kinds of produce. They should contain cold-storage 

 and refrigerator establishments into which perish- 

 able commodities could be placed, either in bulk or 

 in small compartments, which could be rented by 

 the shipper, by retail dealers, or by any individual 

 consumer, like the safety-deposit boxes of a trust 

 company. The warehouse should be equipped for 

 meat, fish, fruit, poultry, butter, eggs, vegetables, 



of additional cars loaded with the products of the association from 

 all parts of Denmark. At the seaport a ship, owned or chartered, 

 is waiting, and the train-loads of products are put aboard and started 

 for England. In England the ship is unloaded into the warehouse 

 of an EngUsh co-operative association to whom the Danish asso- 

 ciation has sold. Between these two associations the produce has 

 been contracted for on a sUding scale for a year in advance. Be- 

 tween the farmers of Denmark and the working men of London 

 there is no middleman. 



"Take out your note-book and make a memorandum of the 

 middlemen who stand between the farmers of Iowa and Wisconsin 

 and the working men of New York and New England. 



"Observe that the Danish produce moves in bulk — full carts, 

 full trucks, full cars, full ships. That is the economy of transporta- 

 tion. Contrast it with our postmaster-general's proposition that 

 individual farmer and consumer shall meet by using the parcel- 

 post. He wants each of the million famihes in New York to receive, 

 in separate shipments, one chicken, one package of butter, one 

 dozen eggs. That is the height of waste in transportation." 



