Marketing Perishable Farm Products Volume 168-170 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... All the railroads entering each wholesale market should be compelled to come together and furnish one central terminal (possibly two or three for New York City) for unloading all the perishables which enter those markets. These terminals should be equipped with large refrigerated sheds into which the cars should be run for unloading. In connection with them the cities should build modern wholesale market buildings on plans similar to those of the wholesale market buildings of Paris, Berlin and other European cities.1 Where such a market building is constructed all the wholesale dealers in the city should be compelled to transact their business in it, and the renting of the quarters and the regulation of the building should be in the hands of the municipal market department. There is little doubt that in many of our large cities wholesale market buildings will not be constructed for a long time to come--they can come only after a campaign of education. But even now the railroads should be forced to furnish centralized terminal facilities around which the wholesale trade would grow up, instead of being scattered all over the city as it is in most cases. Such centralization of the wholesale market within a small area near the terminal would eliminate the present undue exposure of the goods and expense in carting and re-carting the goods over and across the city. E. Investigative and Educational Work The Office of Markets, since its organization in 1913, has devoted its whole time to investigative and educational work. In fact, the law which created this office limits its work to this field. On this point Mr. Charles J. Brand, the Chief of the Office, says: The authority conferred by Congress in appropriating funds 1Amer. Acad, of Pol. and...