INFLUENCE OF A CITY ON FARMING. 
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city to various parts of the county. Along several of these high- 
ways trolley lines have been built, connecting small towns and 
suburban homes with the city. These, with several steam lines 
running out from the city, give the locality an excellent system of 
transportation. (See map, fig. 1.) Louisville is a large distributing 
center, with important machine factories and distilling and brewing 
establishments. There are minor establishments for canning vege- 
tables and making pickles, sauerkraut, catsup, etc. These are 
important agriculturally, in that they give market gardeners a 
market for various surplus vegetables. 
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 rilled 
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 localities where the Irish potato is the dominant 
enterprise. 
