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into each and every pound loaf of bread. As that was all the 

 department wanted, the hivestigation ceased. 



The result has been very satisfactory to the consumers of 

 bread in New York City. Two million loaves of bread, com- 

 mercially baked, are consumed in New York City each and 

 every day in the year and this saving of one cent per loaf 

 meant a saving to the consumers of New York City, through 

 the activities of the New York State Department of Foods and 

 Markets, of $20,000 per day. 



The department's next great work was in opening up the 

 apple market of New York City so that the producers of apples 

 throughout the state might have the same facilities for mar- 

 keting their apples as was granted to CalifoVnia, Florida, Porto 

 Rico and Buenos Ayres for the marketing of their fruits. The 

 department having no money, made a contract with the Fruit 

 Auction Company, a large and wealthy corporation selling fruits 

 at auction in New York City, and on the railroad docks in that 

 city, to sell the New York State products and the products 

 from other states which might be shipped to the department. 

 The arrangement was made with the Fruit Auction Company 

 that they would do the selling and cash the sales on the day 

 following the sales, assuming all responsibilities and liability 

 regarding credits ; that they would do this work for three per 

 cent and the state would charge five per cent for doing the 

 work, so that the two per cent would go to the support of the 

 New York State Department of Foods and Markets. 



To begin with, great combination sales of apples still hang- 

 ing on the trees in the orchards of the New York State growers 

 were organized. They were widely advertised in every state 

 in the union and abroad. Previous to the time of advertising 

 these great sales, the old line apple trust members had been 

 quietly bidding the farmers, at least in New York State, from 

 90c. to $1.25 per barrel; but after the sales were advertised, 

 the trust buyers raised their bids in some instances to $2.25 

 per barrel. When the first great auction sale was held at the 

 farm of William Teator at Red Hook. N. Y., as high as $3.25 

 was paid for apples in the open. 



On the following day, at the farm of Mr. Deyo at Gardiner, 

 N. Y., nearly 30.000 barrels of apples were sold at an average 



