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day are usually sold on the next morning's auction. 

 They are usually put up in lots of 10 or 20 packages, 

 and if any individual happens to have less than a lot 

 of 10 they will be auctioned off separately, allowing each 

 man's fruit to be sold by itself. 



Most auction companies provide regular . warehouses 

 in which the fruit can be handled. They also have con- 



Fig. 111. FRUIT SAMPLES ARRANGED IN THE WAREHOUSE 

 OF AN AUCTION COMPANY 



venient auction rooms. These are arranged something 

 like the seats in a theatre (Fig. 113). Each member be- 

 longing to the auction company is assigned to a seat and, 

 when anything is put up that he is interested in, he goes 

 and bids in as much as desired, as each article comes up 

 for sale. This make's everything open and above board, and 

 gives a chance for the public and the owner to go in and 

 watch his goods auctioned off, and gives an opportunity 

 for the agent of the company to check up. There is not 

 the possibility of doing the rebate work that sometimes oc- 

 curs in the other lines of fruit selling. 



