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tlicii to the amount of $-492.57, — cash $103 and liabilities 

 $569.56, or net profit of $32.90. In 1911 the business 

 exceeded $200,000, with a large balance to the good, complete 

 equipment and a thoroughly organized business, the net in- 

 crease, with all bills paid, being in excess of $25,000. 



These isolated cases indicate what might be general, to the 

 greater profit of the individual producer, affording a- direct 

 avenue for the disposal of his supplies with cost of same 

 minimized. 



Before a radical change can come and new conditions be 

 established we must fix a standard of quality and a type 

 of product most economical for producer and consumer. 

 " What pleases the eye satisfies the palate," says another, 

 but we must get behind the mere show of products in some 

 attractive form and study the problem of producing in like 

 type a larger volume. 



The half-peck, peck and half-bushel carton is sure to come 

 into general use with growers, affording a neat and attractive, 

 as well as convenient, method of disposing of farm crops. 

 That these may satisfy there must come a critical grading 

 to size, and this will necessitate a study of production that 

 greater uniformity may be insured. The potato growers of 

 Aroostook have found by narrowing space between rows, and 

 in the; rows, increasing the seed supply per acre from 12 to 

 17 bushels and using uniform, medium-sized seed, that the 

 overgrown specimens disappear. If the great restaurants 

 of Boston pay an increased price for graded potatoes it is 

 because they are more economical, and if that l)e true with 

 them, it surely soon will be with individuals. What is true 

 with potatoes holds with all farm products. The neatness 

 and attractiveness of the package determines demand and 

 price. The day has gone for the slovenly cart and unkempt 

 driver to find a place except through the commission house 

 or wholesale dealer. We have entered upon an era where 

 the spsthetics are to be couuted necessities, not luxuries, and 

 buyers will more and more be influenced by the attractive- 

 ness of the package and its contents. It is not to be clean 

 milk alone, but clean vegetables ; not alone graded apples, so 

 many to the box, but graded potatoes, beets, carrots, etc., to 



