4 FRUIT HARVESTING. STORING, MARKETING 



industry is ofteiiest confined to a comparatively small 

 localit}^ or a single neighborhood, the statistics of 

 smaller territories would be more instructive than the 

 statistics of an entire state. Take, for example, the 

 statistics of Plymouth County, Mass., drawn from 

 the same source as the figures compiled above: 



I. THE TWO MARKETS 



The fruit markets of the United States may be 

 divided rather sharply into two classes. The first of 

 these may be called the indirect, general, or wholesale 

 market. The second may be distinguished as the 

 direct, special, or retail market. The two are very 

 different in almost all their characteristics, and these 

 differences are of inevitable weight to the fruit 

 grower. Wherefore it will be profitable here to .set 

 forth the.se distinctions with the strongest and most 

 convenient antithesis. The two markets differ, then, 

 in the following particulars : 



I. Qtiajitity. — The general market handles fruits 



