THE WAY TO MARKET.
On this subject a virtue in the National Farmers' Union may be quoted to put against the very unvirtuous activities i n the narrow field of politics. In co-operation with the Ministry the N.F.U. have organized a most admirable and immediately effective system of marketing certain forms of produce. Stations are being set up—and will be set up on behalf of any locality that puts in a solid claim—for the packing, grading, marking, and distributing of farm produce, especially poultry, eggs, and fruit. -The concrete equipment-of these is singularly ingenious and has led to the invention of some new and quaint machines, especially for egg-grading and " candling "—for quality as well as weight—and for hen- plucking. Incidentally, the artificial fruit with which the packing is demonstrated is seductive enough in appearance to make Covent Garden a marketful of envy I
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