. Modern fruit marketing : a complete treatise covering harvesting, packing, storing, transporting and selling of fruit . Fruit trade. 210 MODERN FRUIT MARKETING the auction company. Auctions never received the cars directly, but they are turned over to them by some au- thorized agent of the exchange. As soon as a car of fruit is started to the agent, the business manager of the central exchange or the sales department manager makes a manifest of the contents of the car, giving the name of each individual who had fruit in the car, the quantity,. Fig. -ARRANGING SHIPMENTS IN THE WAREHOUSE
. Modern fruit marketing : a complete treatise covering harvesting, packing, storing, transporting and selling of fruit . Fruit trade. 210 MODERN FRUIT MARKETING the auction company. Auctions never received the cars directly, but they are turned over to them by some au- thorized agent of the exchange. As soon as a car of fruit is started to the agent, the business manager of the central exchange or the sales department manager makes a manifest of the contents of the car, giving the name of each individual who had fruit in the car, the quantity,. Fig. -ARRANGING SHIPMENTS IN THE WAREHOUSE OF THE AUCTION COMPANY variety and grade. This manifest is forwarded to the agent and a copy of it turned over to the auction company. The auction company then proceeds in one or two ways, some take samples from the fruit when it ar- rives and sell entirely from the samples. Others make up a catalog (Fig. 112), and the fruit is inspected in the warehouse or in the ear, and then bid off according to the statements in the catalog. "Where these manifests arrive a day ahead of time they can be cataloged and ready for the auction at the next morning. Cars that have arrived during the afternoon and night of any one. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Brown, Bliss S. , 1880-. New York : Orange Judd Company
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