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part of the fruit must be handled through the wholesale 
or larger markets. 
The net profits received from such sales are usually 
smaller than those from the home market. There are so 
many middlemen and agents that must receive their 
quota of the sales price, which cuts down the profit 
much smaller than when sold at home. The competition 
is also greater. The fruits in the large cities come in 
competition with fruits from widely different sections. 
Not only do they come in competition with the same 
kind of fruits but also with other fruits from the 
tropics and from the warmer part of the United States. 
While the shipper or grower of a certain commodity 
might not have any competition among the different 
fruits in his home market he might have considerable in 
the larger markets of the cities. When growing fruit 
for the home market a very different grade and quality 
of fruit is required. The number and kinds of varieties 
grown is much larger. Home markets usually demand 
varieties of fruit from the very earliest of the season to 
those that will extend through the winter and keep late 
into the spring. This would mean that the grower must 
select more different varieties than he would for the 
city market. 
Most of the requirements of the large markets are for 
standard varieties of fruit. This does not mean that a 
purchaser cannot buy more different kinds of fruit in the 
large cities than he can in the small ones, but from the 
standpoint of the grower he would want a less number 
of varieties for shipping to the large markets than for 
home use. The quality of the fruit varies in two or 
three different ways. It is a well-known fact that most 
