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Excerpt from The Relation of the City to Its Food Supply: Report of a Committee of the National Municipal League, November 19, 1914 The relation of the twentieth century city to its food … Plus…

Excerpt from The Relation of the City to Its Food Supply: Report of a Committee of the National Municipal League, November 19, 1914 The relation of the twentieth century city to its food supply differs ln practically every prime essential from the relation of the nineteenth century village to its food supply. The marvelous development of trans-continental and oceanic freight facilities has made the world the city's garden patch and the sea its harbor. The development of cold storage and warehouse facilities has placed the city nearer to the farm a thousand miles away then was the farm within sight of the city's buildings a quarter of a century ago. The information as to crop and harvest con ditions, secured by wholesale commission houses, has led to stability in wholesale price and has placed the surplus output of every region and practically every clime at the beck and call of the city dweller who can pay the price. The practice of diversion of shipments, or selling in transit, by which a carload of grain or produce can be diverted en route to a point where local prices are higher than at the point of original shipment, is symbolic at once of the fluidity and stability of the twentieth century food supply. The big fact about the food for the twentieth century city is the diversity of its supply. This diversity in food supply means that a city can now be located wherever specialization warrants without suffering from untoward prices or other dangers formerly inherent in distance from the base of supply. This diversity means, too, not only specialization in cities, but specialization in farming countries as well. And, finally, diversity in food supply means choice of foods and consequently a more satisfying, even though more costly, daily urban life. 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. Books > Business and Finance > Marketing and Sales List_Books<