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Excerpt from Marketing Perishable Farm Products The work here offered is a study in the field of marketing agricultural products. Though I hope, in the near future, to expand this study so as to include the marketing of all farm products, this little volume is concerned only with the marketing of one class of these goods. The commodities selected are fruits, vegetables, dairy and poultry products which, for want of a better term, are called Perishables. From the marketing standpoint these products constitute a fairly homogeneous class, and the problems connected with marketing them are, in the main, very different from those connected with marketing Staples (wheat, corn, oats), or the Semi-staples (hay, live stock, tobacco. 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.