Tomato market at the height of the season; buyers ready to compete. 



delphia wholesale houses. Large quantities of peaches, berries and vege- 

 tables are shipped in refrigerator cars from Hammonton and Vineland. 

 Throughout this district special produce trains are put on for the season, 

 and goods can be loaded by the shipper as late as 4 p.m. for the early morn- 

 ing markets in New York and Philadelphia. 



Tomatoes. Many thousand acres of tomatoes are grown for the canning 

 factories located throughout the Central and Southern counties. Some 

 growers contract in the spring. for a specified number of acres at a given 

 price per ton. Others prefer to sell on the open market when the tomatoes 

 are picked. From Swedesboro, one of the largest shipping stations, a single 

 day's shipment of thirty to forty carloads of early tomatoes for distant mar- 

 kets is not unusual during the height of the season. Most of the loading is 

 done by representatives of wholesale produce houses. Bridgeton ships by 

 water daily many tons of canning house tomatoes to Philadelphia and other 

 points. 



Poultry. The poultrymen in the northern counties market their products 

 in the nearby cities by means of motor trucks. The Hunterdon County 



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