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almost, and I believe we shall get a better price next year 

 for our plums, because of the work of the Jew peddler this 

 year, and the same thing applies to many other things. The 

 Jew peddler is our industrious friend and helper in bringing 

 our goods often fresh to the consumer, and compelling hiiTi 

 to take them, when the storekeeper will only take his goods 

 to the consumer once a day. 



A Delegate : I think the Jew peddler is a necessity in 

 some cases, especially when there is a glut in the market. 

 When the fruits are not worth taking to a first-class grocer 

 or private customer, the Jew will take them and he will spend 

 the whole day in selling a few quarts of this and that fruit, 

 and thus get rid of the fruit, wdiich otherwise would be lost 

 or put on the market and so decrease the price. 



Mr. Farnham: It has often occurred to me, and I believe 

 in it, that if we would only sell two-thirds or three-quarters 

 of our product, and throw the other part away, we would 

 be doing each other a good service. I don't think we ought 

 to get exorbitant prices, or to try and extort large prices 

 from the consumer, but I don't think there is any fear of 

 that, for I think that vegetables and fruits are sold for much 

 less, in comparison with the other commodities of life, and 

 I think if we threw away some of them, and didn't put the 

 labor into gathering them and getting them ready for the 

 market, and crowding the market down, we would be better off. 



A Member: I think the Jew peddler is a worthy fellow, 

 and he is trying to get a living, and I know he will often 

 pay a price for good goods, sometimes more than we can 

 get in open market. The trouble is they buy those cheap 

 peaches, which are not often worth eating — that is, the first 

 early peaches that ripen — and sell them to the consumer, and 

 it gets a bad reputation for this fruit ; then when the good 

 peaches come along and the consumer has to pay more for 

 them, he thinks they are robbing him. But as a general rule, 

 they don't sell to the wealthy class of people, but to the work- 

 ing people, and I think we ought to have a good deal of 

 respect for them, because they get rid of that class of goods, 

 and they don't get any too much for them either. The trouble 

 is with the farmers ; we ought to sell them only good goods, 



