Municipal Markets
marts for the buying and selling of foodstuffs controlled by the town or city . In primitive countries this consists of an open space farmers from the outlaying districts within the municipality, where the gather on certain days to sell their produce to the townspeople. In modern cities markets consists usually of well-equipped and especially in this country municipal buildings let to private storekeepers, trol, for the purpose of combating unjustified profit-making of the great body of food merchants of the city. During especially since the close of the war, the war days in the United States, and many cities have considered the advisability of taking up the actual sale of foodstuffs in the markets as well, but this has not yet been widely practiced . The idea of the municipal market is still to and consumer may meet without the unprovide an open market where producer whose prices are more or less under condue intervention of middlemen. ership, and usually the operation, of