The Monmouth County Farmers' Exchange
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9766523 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph H Willits (University of Pennsylvania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1913 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 211-215 |
| Publication date | 1913-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000271621305000131 |
| OpenAlex | W1978008433 |
| Language | EN |
Seven years ago some farmer-grangers of Monmouth County, New Jersey-one of the greatest potato producing counties in the United States-rose in rebellion, because, as they later figured it out, they were getting just 41 cents of every dollar the consumer paid for their potatoes.The other 59 cents went to feed and pay the captains and privates in the great army of middlemen that stretched away from the farmer's front gate to the consumer's back door.The expensive system of reaching the consumer, as then practiced in New Jersey, was as follows: The farmer delivered his potatoes to the local buyer at, say, $1.60 per barrel.This local buyer sold them to a jobber in New York at about 10 cents a barrel in advance
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |