UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BULLETIN No. 315 
,™^S-* Contribution from Office of Markets and Rural Organization, %3&.y, 
-jn3r*VWt. CHARLES J. BRAND, Chief ^3Ns^, 
Washington, D. C. A October 23, 1915 
CANTALOUPE MARKETING IN THE LARGER CITIES, 
WITH CAR-LOT SUPPLY, 1914. 
By Wells A. Sherman, Specialist in Market Surveys; A. Dexter Gail, Jr., Assistant 
in Market Surveys, and Faith L. Yeaw, Laboratory Aid. 
CONTENTS. 
Page. 
Introduction • 1 
Extent of investigations 1 
Systems of distribution within cities 2 
Factors which influence prices 3 
Page. 
Some trade factors influencing the marketing 
of cantaloupes 11 
Cantaloupe shipments in 1914 15 
INTRODUCTION. 
In the market survey work carried on by the Office of Markets and 
Rural Organization considerable attention has been given to the 
marketing of cantaloupes. During the summer of 1914 a study was 
made in a number of the larger markets of the East and Middle West 
in an effort to determine the factors that underlie the successful 
handling and marketing of this crop. 
The 1914 season was a very disastrous one to practically all canta- 
loupe-shipping sections, and, while the marketing difficulties encoun- 
tered were, in most cases, the same as in former years, they were 
accentuated greatly by unusual conditions surrounding crop produc- 
tion and consumptive demand. 
EXTENT OF INVESTIGATIONS. 
To secure comprehensive data, representatives of the office 1 were 
located for various lengths of time in Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland, 
Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, St. Paul, New Haven, Cambridge, Hartford, 
and Kansas City. In addition, general information was secured in 
Buffalo and Minneapolis. 
i These studies were carried on by the following market reporters: J. W. Fisher, jr., J. H. Collins, R. 
Maynard Peterson, G. P. Warber, Grafton L. Wilson, Joseph W. McNaugher, and M. M. Stewart. 
Note.— This bulletin should be of general interest to cantaloupe growers, shippers, dealers, and con- 
sumers, and to transportation companies. 
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