1903 
341 
EVERYBODY'S GARDEN. 
I would like to know something about the 
regulations governing the Detroit market. 
Is the grower of fruits and vegetables 
obliged to go on the market to sell his pro¬ 
duce? Can he go around to the various 
stores or to private houses, hotels, etc., 
early in the morning? If he is obliged to go 
on the market, how long must he stay 
there? You have spoken about some mar¬ 
ket gardeners who do a retail business. 
Are they obliged to wait until after certain 
hours, or do they get a license? Can a man 
be called a “huckster” or “peddler” who 
sells his own produce from house to house? 
Lansing grocers are talking of getting an 
ordinance passed preventing the grower 
from selling from house to house or on the 
streets, and I would like to know what 
other cities are doing, and if a city of the 
size of Lansing can prohibit this sort of 
selling. Reaching the consumer direct 
seems to be the coming way of doing busi¬ 
ness, and I want to know if grocers can 
prevent it. I always supposed the grower 
had the right to sell his own produce direct 
to the consumer if he so desired, h. p. g. 
Lansing, Mich. 
Market Problems. —In this city (De¬ 
troit) there are two produce markets, 
the Eastern and Western. The buildings 
are long open structures cruciform in 
shape, with main passage-ways extend¬ 
ing through each wing to center of 
building. Outside these main passage¬ 
ways and on either side, are alleys where 
produce may be unloaded from the 
wagons and exposed for sale. The load¬ 
ed wagons are backed up side by side to 
the alley-ways extending around the 
angle between the wings, the roof pro¬ 
jecting sufficiently that teams and all 
are under shelter. The uniform market 
fee for single or double load is 10 cents. 
The grower of fruits and vegetables may 
go upon the market if he so desires; but 
is not obliged to do so. He is at liberty 
to sell to anyone at any time or place, 
hotels, stores, private houses, wherever 
he finds a customer, and at any hour of 
the day or night. He is not obliged to 
go upon the market at all; but doing so, 
he is at liberty to leave at any time or 
remain until the market closes, which is 
usually about noon. In this connection 
it may be of interest to say that many 
drive on to the market in the evening. 
Many who live sufficiently near to do so, 
return home with their teams for the 
night and go back in the morning. 
Others living at greater distances, leave 
their loads upon the market and stable 
their teams at nearby hotel barns. In 
the busy market season the loads are 
arriving at all hours from 4 or 5 P. M. 
until late next morning. When weather 
permits many men sleep upon their 
wagons, and others have closed wagons 
with heaters so that they may sleep 
there regardless of weather. But whether 
or not the owners are there personally 
to guard their loads matters not, for 
they are entirely safe at all hours of 
the night and no additional charges are 
made for remaining all night. No 
license is exacted from growers or pro¬ 
ducers, and as stated above they are 
free to go and come at will. All, how¬ 
ever, who go upon the market must pay 
the regular fee of 10 cents. 
The Producer’s Rights. —Our city 
ordinance does not consider the grower 
or producer as a huckster, but expressly 
provides that he may offer his produce 
for sale wherever he sees fit There is 
one exception to this, however, in the 
license governing milkmen. It is a 
separate ordinance, and no doubt con¬ 
flicts with and is directly at variance 
with the main ordinance. The license 
governing the milk trade provides that 
every person offering milk for sale, 
whether traveling on foot or selling 
from the wagon, must pay an annual 
license fee of $1. Every dealer must 
pay the same fee for each wagon in use. 
Grocers, also, I think, selling milk from 
their stores are included, and there is 
no distinction made between actual pro¬ 
ducers and dealers who buy their milk. 
If tested, however, I think this law 
would have to “walk the plank” as be¬ 
ing directly at variance with the gen¬ 
eral ordinance. As to what cities of the 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
size of T^ansing are able to do or will 
undertake, that, of course, is entirely 
problematical. Cities do not usually 
grow in grace and wisdom as they in¬ 
crease in size; but usually exactly the 
reverse. The grocers there may be able 
to get such an ordinance as you men¬ 
tion passed; but if so, it will be to the 
sorrow of both producers and con¬ 
sumers. Public sentiment ought to sit 
down on such a rascally move so hard 
that it will not again spring up in this 
generation at least. The ordinance in 
force here provides that peddlers with 
double team shall pay an annual license 
oi $50; for single horse or hand cart 
$25, and for selling on foot $5. The 
term “peddler,” of course, is understood 
to mean a non-producer, but one who 
buys and sells. The ordinance was sus¬ 
tained by the Supreme Court, but it 
seems to me that the law savors very 
strongly of class legislation. Many 
peddlers are resident taxpayers, while 
many merchants and grocers are simply 
renters. If it can be clearly shown why 
I being a taxpayers haven’t as good a 
right to buy goods and sell them from 
a wagon as a renter has to sell from a 
store and afterwards deliver them with 
a wagon, then I will acknowledge that 
I am wTong. J. e. morse. 
Michigan. 
Fertilizer for Sweet Potatoes. 
H. E. W., Uttiontoicn, JTy.—What la the 
best way to apply fertilizer for sweet 
potatoes in the hill, so as not to get too 
much in a place or, in other words, to dis¬ 
tribute it so as to make the best yield? I 
have a brand of fertilizers, guaranteed 
analysis ammonia three to four per cent, 
phosphoric acid available eight to 10 per 
cent, potash (actual) five to six per cent. 
My ground is a sandy loam. 
Ans. —One of the cheapest and sim¬ 
plest ways to apply fertilizers to sweet 
potato land is to drill them into the 
furrows with an ordinary planter. 1 
have opened furrows and broadcast the 
fertilizers in the furrows by hand and 
then made the ridges over these fur¬ 
rows and obtained excellent results. I 
believe an ordinary grain drill would 
be a good implement for this purpose. 
Of course not so much of the fertilizers 
would be distributed near the roots in 
such a case, but I doubt seriously 
whether this is necessary; since your 
ground is a sandy loam it is quite like¬ 
ly the crop will need more potash than 
anything else. Nitrogen in the mineral 
form has frequently given negative re¬ 
sults, Phosphoric acid has always been 
satisfactory with me. A sweet potato 
crop of 185 bushels per acre removes 57 
pounds of nitrogen, 16 pounds phos¬ 
phoric acid and 108 pounds of potash. 
Of course larger amounts should be ap¬ 
plied per acre since the plants will not 
get all that may be applied. 
Virginia. r. h. prick. 
Imported Jersey Cattle At Auction. 
Mr. Frank S. Peer, of Ithaca, N. Y., the well known 
Importer of Live Stock, will sell his 18th importation 
of Jerseys. Tuesday May 12 at Uexamer's Hoboken 
KidinK Academy 219 Hudson St., Hoboken, N. .1. (20 
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