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^oiie of their bright shining lights, George W. Perkins, the 

 organizer of the Harvester Trust. He has made all the 

 money he wants and now he wants to help the producer and 

 tile consumer, wants to make a record for having done 

 something for the people. 



You know the story of Thomas Osborne; they have not 

 treated Mr, Dillon as bad as they treated Osborne, because 

 they have indicted him, and he is so busy trying to clean up 

 affairs that he even had to get out of office while he is doing 

 it, but I hope he will soon be restored, and if there is a man 

 to help the poor criminal in the penitentiary, is it not time 

 we had somebody to help the agricultural interests of the 

 country and the consumers? I thank you. (Applause). 



THE CHAIRMAN: I am very glad to see one thing, and 

 that is that Mr. Emerson realizes the fact that Boston is 

 probably not anywhere like New York ; that shows he must 

 have studied into the matter somewhat. 



Before we continue the subject, I want to ask our Vice 

 President and the other officers to distribute the prize apples 

 liere. (This was done and everyone received an apple). 



THE CHAIRMAN : Have you any questions to ask Mr. 

 Emerson ? 



MR FROST : I would like to ask :\rr. Emerson how the 

 surplus is handled in a case like the auction sales? 



MR. EMERSON : In the commodities which auction 

 companies handle exclusively, such as citrous fruits which 

 ?re not highly perishable, very often many cars are held out 

 across the river and not thrown upon the market, but in the 

 case of highly perishable products, they are sold, as it is w<^ll 

 known that, whether sold at auction or private sale, they 

 must either be disposed of or they would rot during the day 

 or within a day or two. 



Now then, goods that are not perishable, goods that are 

 subject to cold storage, come in and they are stored if the 

 shipper or owner so desires, but the auction comjoany never 

 exercises that function witliout communicating by tele- 



