Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1917 — HOME PRODUCE SELLS BEST [ARTICLE]

HOME PRODUCE SELLS BEST

When Put In An Attractive Condition Before Being Marketed. Many farmers make a mistake in not putting their produce in more attractive condition to bring to market. Attractiveness is half the selling power, and those who bring in unsorted potatoes, apples and other produce may consider themselves lucky if they are able to sell them at all. Small potatoes can be kept at home and cooked and fed to the hogs or chickens, and good use can be made of Inferior produce of other kinds. But to bring such to market mixed with the really marketable produce spoils the appearance of all and it successful in selling it it must be at a lower aggregate figure than the good stuff would bring of itself if it were sorted out. The retailer can not sell unattractive produce at scarcely any price, and if he buys such he must either sort it and put it in presentable shape or sell it as he bought it—for what it looks like it might be worth. But even then customers are few who care to purchase it and he takes a long chance in buying it at all. If farmers would only remember this they would have less cause to complain about the prices they are offered for their produce in the home market.