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MARKET PROBLEMS 



some cities crates are used. In Syracuse, Scranton, Wilkes- 

 Barre, Buffalo, and a great many other cities, fourteen and 

 sixteen quart Jersey baskets are used for tomatoes. In 

 Rochester for lettuce, beets, carrots and vegetables of this 

 type, we use display boxes holding one and one-half and two 

 bushels, while in some cities barrels are used for these veget- 

 ables. So you can plainly see that if you intend to market 

 your goods in different places, you must be familiar with the 

 kind of package that is used on the particular market to 

 which you intend to ship. 



The Story of the Rochester Markets. 



Just a word to tell you of some of the conditions we have 

 to contend with in Rochester. A few years ago, before veget- 

 ables were grown as extensively as they are now and before 

 Rochester became a city of the first class, the gardeners and 

 farmers were allowed — notice, I use the word allowed — to 

 stand on the streets in a certain section of the city. I have 

 arrived at the market place as early as ten o'clock in the 

 evening and stayed there until daylight many and many a 

 time. I have watched the people who reside in the city go- 

 ing to and from their different places of amusement during 

 the evening and early morning hours, and then wrapped my- 

 self in a blanket, lain down on the cold stone sidewalk and 

 attempted to sleep until such a time as the retailer came to 

 buy my goods. He did not sympathize with me, he did not 

 even seem willing to pay a fair price for my goods, but rather 

 seemed to think that as I was from the country and perhaps 

 my hands and clothes showed close relationship with the soil, 

 that any old greeting and any old price was good enough for 

 me. 



But gentlemen, things have changed in Rochester. 

 We multiplied so fast that they could not take care of us at 

 the old stand. 



We blocked the streets. 

 We stopped the street cars. 



We aroused the city people from their peaceful slumbers. 

 In fact, we became so troublesom^e that they finally began 

 to realize that something would have to be done. 



