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predominate. They are usually in buildings owned by some 

 company which rents the stalls to growers or dealers. A good 

 example of this type of market is the Ridge Avenue Market in 

 Philadelphia. Here a stall about twelve feet wide rents for $80 

 a year. The growers haul in their produce twice a week (Tuesdays 

 and Fridays), at noon, and remain until noon of the next day. 

 Produce is sold at both wholesale and retail from the same stall. 

 In Baltimore there are about ten retail stall markets, with ^' market 

 days," Tuesday, Friday, and especially Saturday, lasting until 

 late Saturday night. The upper class of customers do their mar- 

 keting in the morning, the middle class in the afternoon, and the 



Fig. 179. 



-Four loads of vegetables for a single day's marketing iroi 

 Peoria, Illinois. 



one garden near 



lower class Saturday night. Hucksters buy everything that re- 

 mains after the retail trade for the evening is over, so that nothing 

 has to be hauled home by the growers. 



Sometimes a street and stall market is combined under one 

 supervision. This is true of the market in Peoria, Illinois (Fig. 179). 

 The building is owned by an organization composed of six growers. 

 Stalls are rented to the owners and to others for the season. The 

 organization also collects ten cents per day from every grower who 

 sells from a wagon on the street near by without renting a stall. 

 A *' market manager," with police power, preserves order and 

 collects the dimes. 



In smaller towns or where there is no organized market, the 



