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THE RURAb NEW-Y ORKER 
February 10, 
MORE ABOUT THE LANCASTER, PA. 
MARKET. 
J. J. C., Eugene, Ore .—We are studying 
the matter of a public market here. Will 
Elmer J. Weaver, who told about the mar¬ 
ket at Lancaster, Fa., give the following in¬ 
formation? How did you go about it (in¬ 
stalling the public market) ? Is it man¬ 
aged as a city institution? Describe the 
buildings as to site, floor plan, construction. 
And please give similar information briefly 
as to the private markets you mentioned. 
Ans. —Taking the questions in order 
as asked, the first is how was the mar¬ 
ket installed. Frankly, I do not know, 
nor do people much older than I am 
know very much about it, the public 
market having been in operation there 
so many years that only the examina¬ 
tion of city records would show the in¬ 
ception and start of same. Part of it, 
and the most successful part, is con¬ 
trolled by the city. The curb market 
occupies two blocks of the most prom¬ 
inent streets in the city. Wagons are 
backed up to the curb Wednesday and 
Saturday of each week and stands 
placed on each side of pavement. These 
stands the marketman furnishes and 
cares for, either taking them home each 
trip or storing them at the hotel where 
he feeds his horse. The city sells only the 
space. The most successful market 
house is controlled by the city, and is 
located very nearly in the town’s busi¬ 
ness center. It contains over 200 stands, 
which rent each season for over $6,000, 
being sold each December at public sale. 
The sale price is $30 each, but competi¬ 
tion sometimes runs them up to $100. 
The floor is of concrete, the stands are 
about 11 to 12 feet long, and built double 
except outer row along walls, similar to 
sketch, Fig. 52, the high partition serv¬ 
ing as a place to fasten shelves to ac¬ 
commodate produce, as well as dividing 
space between stands. The houses are 
not heated, which makes marketing a 
very unpleasant feature for both pro¬ 
ducer and consumer, though the public 
PLAN FOR MARKET. FiG. 52. 
is so accustomed to buying produce in 
this manner that the attendance was not 
much reduced during the recent extreme 
cold. The construction is substantial, 
and roofs are mostly supported by 
bridge trussing, brick being used in con¬ 
struction. 
The private market houses are built 
along similar lines; one having a cap¬ 
ital of $75,000 contains 272 stands, hav¬ 
ing four aisles seven feet six inches 
wide* and each stand being 11 feet long 
and separated from its neighbor by a 
cross passage two feet wide. This house 
is known as the Northern Market and 
is located several squares from center 
of city. The end and basement at one 
end are occupied by the city's largest 
fruit dealer and oyster house. There is 
a balcony running round three sides 
about 20 feet wide, which is rented to a 
dealer in farm machinery. Recently a 
new market was formed by the follow¬ 
ing method: The amount of capital was 
decided on, then farmers were asked 
to subscribe to the stock in small 
shares, someone being appointed to so¬ 
licit subscriptions. This house is heated 
and is proving quite successful In some 
cases farmers have been offered free 
stand rent for first season in starting a 
new market, as there are so many here 
that there are hardly enough farmers 
to occupy all the stands each market 
day. Your difficulty would doubtless be 
to get both farmers and consumers to 
market at the start, but some judicious 
advertising should overcome this, as a 
start is all that is necessary, and it cer¬ 
tainly is a move in the right direction. 
ELMER J. WEAVER. 
Contract Systems of Marketing. 
J. S. B., New York .—On page 29 in men¬ 
tioning the new Shippers’ and Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation in Chautauqua Co., N. Y., H. Iv. 
Palmer speaks of the “contract system.” 
What does this mean? 
Ans. —The contract system is a sys¬ 
tem that has grown up in this vicinity 
during the past 15 years or more, and 
I might cite as an example of it, the 
Chautauqua and Erie Grape Union, 
which was formed a number of years 
ago and in which the shares of capital 
stock were limited. They were rapidly 
taken up at that time, and after a few 
years it became necessary for anyone 
who was not a stockholder, in order to 
ship in the Association, to sign a con¬ 
tract to ship with this Association. It 
is this system that I refer to, and in 
general it is the same through all the 
various organizations that we have here¬ 
about. It has not worked out to the 
satisfaction of a large per cent of the 
growers, as is shown by the fact that in 
the Chautauqua and Erie Company they 
had at one time a number of years ago 
80 per cent of the grape crop to market, 
and this past season they marketed just 
22 per cent of the grapes. Therefore, 
in order to meet this condition this As¬ 
sociation has placed its shares at $5 
each, and the number thereof at 1,000 
in order that all who cared to ship with 
the Association could become a stock¬ 
holder thereof, and have a voice in its 
affairs and management. We are sat¬ 
isfied that it will work out to the ut¬ 
most good, and will do away with a lot 
of conditions that have heretofore ex¬ 
isted and will go a long way towards 
helping to hold the growers together. 
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