27 JANUARY 1933, Page 14

There are many signs that the local and the co-operative

markets are corning into their own. Roadside marketing has established itself in all the more intensive areas of cultivation, such as Pershore and the fruit areas of Kent. That great farmer Mr. Tanner, whose loss is everywhere deplored, had come near to his ideal of selling £1,000 worth of stuff at the roadside of his farm at Kingston Bagpuze. A chain of collec- tive country markets would mark real progress, and be of inestimable benefit both to producer and consumer.

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