. Modern fruit marketing : a complete treatise covering harvesting, packing, storing, transporting and selling of fruit . Fruit trade. SELLING METHODS 211 day are usually sold on the next morning's auction. They are usually put up in lots of 10 or 20 packages, and if any individual happens to have less than a lot of 10 they will be auctioned off separately, allowing each man's fruit to be sold by itself. Most auction companies provide regular warehouses in which the fruit can be handled. They also have con-. Fig. 111.—FRUIT SAMPLES ARRANGED IN THE WAREHOUSE OF AN- AUCTION COMPANY venient aucti
. Modern fruit marketing : a complete treatise covering harvesting, packing, storing, transporting and selling of fruit . Fruit trade. SELLING METHODS 211 day are usually sold on the next morning's auction. They are usually put up in lots of 10 or 20 packages, and if any individual happens to have less than a lot of 10 they will be auctioned off separately, allowing each man's fruit to be sold by itself. Most auction companies provide regular warehouses in which the fruit can be handled. They also have con-. Fig. 111.—FRUIT SAMPLES ARRANGED IN THE WAREHOUSE OF AN- AUCTION COMPANY venient auction rooms. These are arranged something like the seats in a theatre (Fig. 113). Each member be- longing to the auction company is assigned to a seat and, when anything is put up that he is interested in, he goes and bids in as much as desired, as each article comes up for sale. This makes everything open and above board, and gives a chance for the public and the owner to go in and watch his goods auctioned off, and gives an opportunity for the agent of the company to check up. There is not the possibility of doing the rebate work that sometimes oc- curs in the other lines of fruit 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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