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ultimate consumers are all purchasers on this market. Packages 

 are not furnished with the purchases. The price for his products 

 is named by the grower, and varies greatly from day to day. It is 

 influenced by the amount of the particular product on that market, 

 and also the amount on South Water Street, shipped in from other 

 points. The grower holds to his price if conditions warrant, but 

 when the market is over-supplied will accept lower offers if neces- 

 sary to effect sales, rather than be obliged to haul home part of 

 his load. 



Conditions are much the same in the Buffalo produce market, 

 except that an entire block, instead of a street, is reserved for the 

 market, and that a definite space in the block is rented by each 



Fig. 178. — Partial view of "Eastern Market," Detroit, Michigan, where enormous 

 quantities of produce are sold by growers. Good example of a local market. 



gardener at the height of the season. The entire block is paved, 

 and raised flag-stone walks are placed at certain intervals. The 

 wagons are backed up along both sides of these walks, so that 

 the prospective purchasers can easily examine the products. 

 This is essentially a wholesale market, though retailing is done 

 on one '^ row." 



A view of a Detroit, Michigan, market is shown in Fig. 178. 



In greater New York there are at least four open street markets, 

 to which the growers bring their produce and sell it from their 

 wagons. These markets are open blocks, paved, with raised stone 

 walks, as in Buffalo. 



In Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, stall markets 



