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are rented to other dealers in plant products. Each stall 

 covers approximately fifteen square feet of floor space. 

 There is a good counter three and one-half feet wide and 

 nearly four feet long. Here is made the principal dis- 

 play of products. Above this is a smaller shfelf, and be- 

 low is space for storage of boxes. The stalls rent for 

 from fifty-five to one hundred dollars a year, according to 

 location. The rent of a stall includes light, telephone 

 service, vases, ice and such space in ice boxes as may be 

 required. The stalls are auctioned, for the year each 

 fall, and the most desirable ones go to the highest bid- 

 ders. There are some objections to this method, one 

 being that most growers prefer to occupy their stalls 

 successive years, so that buyers will always know where 

 to locate them. A change is proposed whereby all 

 stalls will be divided into sections. The most desirable 

 will be classed in Section A, the next in Section B, and 

 so down to the least desirable. The rent for each sec- 

 tion is made uniform, and a renter may keep his stall 

 indefinitely if he so wishes. A grower may also rent sev- 

 eral stalls if his business demands it. 



27. Rules governing renters of stalls. There are 

 general rules governing the conduct of renters of stalls 

 and they must agree to conform to the rules of the cor- 

 poration. The regular market hours are from six to ten 

 every morning, but salesmen are on duty until five in the 

 afternoon, and no salesman or lessee is allowed to leave the 

 immediate vicinity of his stall to solicit customers ; neither 

 is he allowed to solicit or accept retail orders within the 

 market. There are also general rules governing the con- 

 duct of the lessee or his salesman during market hours. 

 Any complaint against a lessee or salesman as to the man- 

 ner of conducting his business, or the breaking of rules of 



