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Associations of the type of the " Westland" 

 society, though on a smaller scale, are to be 

 found throughout the market-garden districts 

 of North Holland. Several of them are in 

 operation in the districts of Alkmaar and 

 Bovenkarspel, and the greater part of the 

 cauliflower and cabbage crops grown in the 

 neighbourhood of these places is disposed 

 of by co-operative auction sales in buildings 

 erected by such societies. The principal 

 object of them all is to sell the produce of 

 their members to the best advantage, and to 

 maintain the reputation of Dutch produce for 

 uniformity of quality by the inspection and 

 marking of goods offered for sale. Unsuit- 

 able produce is either rejected, or, if it is 

 inadvertently passed by the examining com- 

 mittee and a well-founded complaint is 

 subsequently made by the purchaser, the 

 producer is either compelled to take the 

 goods back or to allow compensation to the 

 purchaser on a scale fixed by the society. 



In the case of one co-operative auction 



