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Excerpt from The Market for Fresh Fruits and Vegetables in Peoria In order to have a basis for dealing with some of the problems which the changing conditions just outlined have created, a survey was made of the Peoria, Illinois, fresh fruit and vegetable market. Since the problems facing all vegetable growers around Illinois cities are of the same general nature, it seemed advisable to concentrate upon one market and to make a detailed study of the marketing problems within that one area. Peoria was chosen because it represents one of the larger industrial centers of the state outside of Chicago. The data were collected chiefly in 1935 by representatives of the Agricultural Experiment Station. A few additional facts were obtained for 1936. Interviews were held with a large number of consumers in different districts of the city; the origin and the disposal of different varieties of produce entering the market were studied; detailed infor mation was obtained from a considerable number of retail stores of different types in the city; Operations on the local public market were checked carefully; surveys were made of the vegetables used by a typical group of eating places in the city and of the operations of various wholesale produce dealers in the area. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.