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way of avoiding considerable of the losses 
that now occur, but the cannery is not 
adapted to all of our vegetables, and the 
difficulty right there would be to get a 
party competent to run a cannery so as to 
produce a high grade product. The short 
season that the cannery would be in op¬ 
eration would tend to make this a diffi¬ 
cult problem at any time. 
One of the helps to the solution of mar¬ 
keting difficulties would be a more co¬ 
operative spirit among the growers so 
that they would produce materials in 
large quantities of a uniform quality and 
kind, and insist that buyers pay cash, F. 
O. B. If all the growers were united 
along this line, they would solve most of 
their difficulties. Cutting out consign¬ 
ments entirely would go a long way to 
cut out the unnecessary middlemen and 
jobbers. 
When all the cities and towns adopt a 
public market system, and the Florida 
vegetable grower can sell direct to the 
market keepers of these towns, this will 
help to solve, to a certain extent, some of 
the present troubles. 
The producers of food will weld them¬ 
selves some day into one great association 
and the people will operate public markets 
in every city of our country, and then 
will come the swan song of the non-pro¬ 
ducing middleman and parasite, who will 
haste to fall bac^ where he ought to be 
now, in the class of producers from the 
soil. Then let us help to hasten that day 
by united efforts along all practical lines 
of the elimination of unnecessary costs in 
getting our products direct to the con¬ 
sumer. 
