INFLUENCE OF A CITY ON FAKMING. 



city to various parts of the county. Along several of these high- 

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 suburban homes with the city. These, with several steam hues 

 running out from the city, give the locahty an excellent system of 

 transportation. (See map, fig. 1.) Louisville is a large distributing 

 center, with important machine factories and distilling and brewing 

 estabhshments. There are minor estabhshments for canning vege- 

 tables and making pickles, sauerkraut, catsup, etc. These are 

 important agriculturally, in that they give market gardeners a 

 market for various sm-plus vegetables. 













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Fig. 1.— Map of area studied. Dots indicate farms visited. 



The city market place is operated by an association of farmers and 

 business men. The distance from Louisville to the farms included 

 in this study is considered to be the distance from the market place 

 to these farms. During the season of fresh vegetables and fruits 

 this market place from early morning until noon each day is filled 

 with vehicles of the truckers from the country. Here dealers and 

 individual consumers come to buy the farmers' produce. 



There are two important farmers' marketing and shipping estab- 

 lishments outside the city limits, one at St. Matthews and one at 

 Buechel, both in locahties where the Irish potato is the dominant 

 enterprise. 



