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priced apples are bulky for their value and must, therefore, 

 be produced near market. Only the very best are worth 

 shipping long distances. For this reason the growers 

 in the Western States have become skillful graders and 

 packers. But the largest apple market is with the working 

 people, who cannot afford to pay for fruit that is worth 

 shipping across a continent. For every fancy box of apples 

 that is sold in any city, many barrels of cheaper apples 

 are sold. Most of the growers in the North Atlantic 

 States strive for quantity and economy in production 

 combined with fair quality, rather than sacrifice both of 

 these for quality. There is an enormous demand for low- 

 priced apples. Most farmers in the Central and North- 

 eastern States find that they can make more money by 

 supplying this demand than by trying to compete for the 

 very limited fancy trade. The Baldwin, Greening, Ben 

 Davis, and other wholesale types of apples are usually 

 most profitable. 



Truck and vegetable crops and flowers are, in general, 

 perishable and very bulky, hence are grown very close to 

 cities. A city's truck crops usually come from very near by ; 

 milk is shipped farther, eggs still farther, meat and flour 

 still farther ; clothing may be shipped around the world. 



The only case in which fresh vegetables are shipped far- 

 is when they come from Southern to Northern markets. 

 In this case they have no competition from nearer farms. 

 Such products compete with greenhouses. Within the 

 same latitude, long-distance shipment of truck is rarely 

 profitable. 



53. Marginal regions. With every product, there 

 are regions of greatest profit and regions where the type 

 is out of the question, but it is very hard to draw the line 

 between the two. In the best regions there are always 



