Our farms are tributary to the nation's greatest playground the Jersey coast. 



MARKET FACILITIES 



Unlimited Markets at Hand. Farmers in New Jersey do not have the 

 difficult marketing problems encountered by producers in the Western and 

 Southern States. New York on one side of the State and Philadelphia on 

 the other, are within one hundred miles of any farm in the State, yet New 

 Jersey at present supplies but a small percentage of their needs. The man- 

 ufacturing cities, the country towns and villages and the rapidly growing 

 seashore resorts within the State likewise furnish markets for a large part 

 of the farm products now grown. Twenty-five hundred miles of steam 

 railways, a great highway system and deep-water ship transportation on 

 three sides give our farmers market connections surpassed by those of no 

 other territory in the world. 



MARKETING FARM CROPS 



Dairy Products. I n parts of Sussex, Warren, Hunterdon, Morris and 

 Somerset Counties, ninety per cent of the farm incomes are derived from 

 the sale of fluid milk. A majority of these farmers are members of the 

 Dairymen's League, and market their products through that organization 

 in New York, Philadelphia, Newark and Paterson. The railroads run 

 special milk trains, or have milk cars attached to mixed freight trains. 

 Light motor trucks are much used for the delivery of milk to shipping sta- 

 tions. In some localities motor truck routes have been established, whereby 



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