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MARKET PROBLEMS 



Question: Would that be better than to pull up those 

 plants and dispose of them? 



Professor Herrick : If you care to lose those plants, that 

 would do as well. 



Mr. Greffrath : I assure you that it gives us pleasure 

 to see so many of you here that are interested in 

 market gardening. I wish we could interest more of you 

 to become members. I know there are quite a large number 

 of ladies in attendance. I wish to extend the invitation to 

 them to become members. We have quite a number of ladies 

 who are members. 



The subject taken up at this hour is "Market Problems." 

 It is to be discussed by one of our number who will speak 

 from his own experience. It gives me pleasure to introduce 

 Mr. Warren of Irondequoit. 



MARKET PROBLEMS. 



A. J. Warren, Irondequoit, New York. 



As the President has just told you, I am not a professor, 

 so perhaps my grammar will not be as good as that of some 

 of the preceding speakers. I am not an orator, so my ges- 

 tures will be limited. I am just a common market gardener 

 and shipper of vegetables. 



The problems of market gardening are many, almost as the 

 names that a certain groceryman had in Rochester last year. 

 One morning the market was quite well filled with potatoes, 

 and they did not move quite as fast as they ought to, and so 

 he took advantage of the oversupply and went to fifteen or 

 twenty of the gardeners, who had potatoes left on their 

 wagons and bought them. Not having packages enough to 

 empty all of the gardeners' crates, he asked them to leave 

 their crates until the next day, which they did, each having 

 his own name on his crate. He lined all these crates up in 

 front of his store, perhaps fifteen or twenty different men's 

 crates. An Irishman came along. He looked at those crates, 

 and he said: "Are these your goods?" The grocerj^man said: 



