14 



U. OF N. H. AGRI. EXP. STATION [Bulletin 249 



ages of each of the seven groups then are given in Table VII. The 

 five largest producers of farm products for the roadside market aver- 

 aged to sell $4063 worth of these goods. They sold other things, 

 such as $1658 worth of home cooking; $2156 worth of gasoline and oil; 

 $825 worth of merchandised food materials, like candy and ice cream; 

 and less amounts of the other classes, making up total sales per stand 

 of $9479. The largest sales of farm products purchased averaged 

 $2439 for five places. A group of five similarly selected in respect to 

 home prepared food products averaged $3731, and for merchandised 

 food, candy, etc., $2,697. The gasoline and oil group showed the 

 largest sales of any, both in the product by which selected and in total 

 sales, $6074 and $10,438 respectively. But it should be borne in mind 

 that the margin of profit on gasoline is small, without accounting for 

 evaporation and other possible shrinkage. Overnight accommodations, 

 including a few meals for the lodgers as well as room rent, amounted 

 to $684. This group depends on sales of home cooking $2293, farm 

 products mostly raised $1228, merchandised food $618, and gasoline 

 $104, to make up total sales per stand of practically $5000. The sell- 

 ing of old-fashioned furniture, groceries, hand-made baskets, sewing 

 and weaving, auto tires, and similar articles, uncommon to roadside 

 marketing in general but representing an appreciable amount of busi- 

 ness in a few individual cases, made it possible to pick out five records 

 with average sales from miscellaneous, so-called, of $2560. Perhaps 



The variety at farm produce markets ojien ranges from vegetables to balsam 

 pillows. 



this condition suggests that almost anything may be sold at a roadside 

 stand under opportune conditions. 



Some of the averages for the whole group are of possible interest, 

 showing the total sales as $6902, which represents 86.8 per cent of the 

 total receipts for these 35 homes. As would be expected, where a road- 



