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fected and dried by the jobbers before being offered to 

 the public. "Walnut meats are hand-brushed and then 

 disinfected before re-packing-. Cocoanuts are ground 

 and shredded, spices re-cleaned, extracts refined in the 

 jobbers ' special warehouses. Our people have become so 



Fig. 123. ROASTING COFFEE IX A NEW YORK JOBBING HOUSE 



accustomed to seeing foreign goods packed in good 

 American packages that they have ceased to wonder at 

 the wide knowledge of English the world over. 



Business Credit. It will be worth while to digress 

 here slightly to comment upon the credit system built 

 up by the jobbing business. While capital must neces- 

 sarily be represented, and often in a big way, the bulk 

 of the monthly business is conducted entirely on credit, 



