378 HARVESTING AND MARKETING VEGETABLES 



The product should be graded as to size, color, ripeness, 

 and soundness, and packed in attractive receptacles. Be- 

 sides these considerations, it is of great importance to 



Fig. 195. Preparing vegetables and fruits for market. 



place the products on the market when the consumer is 

 most anxious to purchase them. 



Cooperation. -- The problems of marketing may often 

 best be solved by the growers forming a cooperative or- 

 ganization. In this way, the marketing is placed in the 

 hands of an experienced manager who possesses ability for 

 this work. This is advisable in localities devoting their 

 attention to the growing of one kind of crop. As a rule, 

 cooperative associations are formed mainly for the purpose 

 of selling produce, but they may also buy fertilizers, pack- 

 ages, and other supplies for members, and build storage 

 and packing houses for the produce. Such associations 

 are found to-day in many sections of the country. The 



