l68 THE AMERICAN PEACH ORCHARD 



which profitable advice can hardly be given in a 

 brief book on peach growing. 



SELLING METHODS 



Aside from direct retail selling in home markets, 

 which will be discussed later, there are two prin- 

 cipal methods of selling fruit crops. The most com- 



mon method is by consignment to commission men. 

 The problem of the commission man has been dis- 

 cussed with great fervor in fruit growers' meetings 

 from time immemorial. The commission man has 

 been damned for nearly everything that ever hap- 

 pened in the peach orchard, including the work of 

 the borers and the damage by the neighbor's cows, 

 yet in a good many cases it has seemed as though 



