A Quaint Market in Southern France

Did you ever wonder about how the farmers of other countries go to town and how their produce and livestock are marketed? Then you will be interested in the following description of a Saturday market day in the town of Mussidan in Sunny France. This is a town of about 5,000 population, sixty miles northeast of Bordeaux, and in the center of a fairly rich agricultural section of which the principal industry is growing grapes for wine. Yet livestock plays no meager part as the description below will show. The writer was billeted in this town last fall as a soldier of the United States Army Signal Corp and had excellent opportunities for observing the agricultural conditions and the methods of marketing at this place.

To the American farmer going to market is not an event of importance but just a matter of business routine when he cranks old Henry . . .