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part of the fruit must be handled through the wholesale 

 or larger markets. 



The net profits received from such sales are usually 

 smaller than those from the home market. There are so 

 many middlemen and agents that must receive their 

 quota of the sales price, which cuts down the profit 

 much smaller than when sold at home. The competition 

 is also greater. The fruits in the large cities come in 

 competition with fruits from widely different sections. 

 Not only do they come in competition with the same 

 kind of fruits but also with other fruits from the 

 tropics and from the warmer part of the United States. 



While the shipper or grower of a certain commodity 

 might not have any competition among the different 

 fruits in his home market he might have considerable in 

 the larger markets of the cities. When growing fruit 

 for the home market a very different grade and quality 

 of fruit is required. The number and kinds of varieties 

 grown is much larger. Home markets usually demand 

 varieties of fruit from the very earliest of the season to 

 those that will extend through the winter and keep late 

 into the spring. This would mean that the grower must 

 select more different varieties than he would for the 

 city market. 



Most of the requirements of the large markets are for 

 standard varieties of fruit. This does not mean that a 

 purchaser cannot buy more different kinds of fruit in the 

 large cities than he can in the small ones, but from the 

 standpoint of the grower he would want a less number 

 of varieties for shipping to the large markets than for 

 home use. The quality of the fruit varies in two or 

 three different ways. It is a well-known fact that most 



