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cent of the stands surveyed were open the year around, the other 78 

 places only averaged 19.3 weeks or something less than five months. 

 It is likewise apparent from Figure 3 that the twelve months' business 

 does not operate on any high scale of activity during the major part 

 of the year. The roadside business, then, for New Hampshire at 

 least, is a problem in seasonal development contemporary with the 

 crop growing period, long daj^s, and summer traffic. Increasing winter 

 use of the roads for automobiles, closed cars, characteristic good cellar 



Table XL — -Months ^n which stands open and close for the season 



*0f tliis number 25 are open the year around. 



storage facilities on farms, and more attention to local trade may in- 

 crease winter business some, but its potential possibilities as compared 

 to summer are relatively unimportant. 



Stands which are not open the year around, mostly start selling in 

 May and June. The largest group closes in October, but there are 

 many which terminate the season's activity in September and Novem- 

 ber and some in December. Some figures are shown in Table XI. 



Labor 



One of the fundamental problems of agricultural production is labor. 

 Sometimes there is difficulty in paying the price for labor, or in getting 

 labor that is efficient to help the farmer with his work; often of no 

 less importance is the problem of finding continuous remunerative em- 

 ployment for the members of the farm family — that is, of having the 

 business large enough and . made up of enterprises so happily selected 

 that the results of labor expended shall amply reward the laborer for 



