AREAS ADAPTED TO CELERY CULTURE 5 



Marketing Considerations. — Marketing facilities 

 should be carefully considered when contemplating 

 the culture of celery on a large scale. Markets are 

 of two classes — namely, home markets where the 

 entire product may be hauled by wagon and dis- 

 posed of direct to the retail dealers or the consum- 

 ers, and distant or shipping markets. Some locali- 

 ties offer the opportunity of disposing of a part of 

 the product on the home market and the remainder 

 on some distant market. The home market gener- 

 ally reduces the cost of packing and shipping, and 

 as a rule affords a higher price for the product. 

 Owing to the bulk of celery it is desirable that the 

 field where it is produced should not be located at 

 a greater distance than 5 miles from the home 

 market. The shipping market will provide for 

 a larger acreage and permit the crop to be removed 

 more rapidly than if the local market were de- 

 pended upon. For satisfactory shipping facilities, the 

 railroad sidings should not be more than 2 miles 

 from the more distant parts of the celery fields, and 

 it is preferable to have a loading track running 

 directly through the fields, and the cars clistributed 

 as nearly as possible to the points where the celery 

 is being packed. It is often possible to dispose 

 of one grade of celery on the home market and an- 

 other grade by shipping, but where large quantities 

 are grown the local markets cannot be relied upon. 

 The possibility of securing cars, direct rail connec- 

 tions to the larger cities, and satisfactory freight 

 rates, are matters that should receive careful atten- 

 tion before undertaking a large celery growing 

 enterprise. 



