478 The Principles of Fruit -growing. 



city, they earn what they get. There is not a lane, 

 street, nor avenue of the city where their voice is 

 not heard, not a block but is visited by their ram- 

 shackled old wagon, their apology for a horse with 

 his harness or straps and strings. Not a house is 

 passed unnoticed ; they are everywhere, and sell the 

 fruit at a margin so close that, as I have said, their 

 profits are exceedingly small. I honor them, for 

 they are engaged in an honest calling ; I respect 

 them, for they bring to the very poor, in the poor- 

 est sections of the city, a taste, at least, of the 

 richest and best offering of the country to the city, 

 and we use them freely in our business and treat 

 them, rough, uncouth, ragged and ignorant though 

 they may be, as men. 



"There remains F, the shipper, whose aid is val- 

 uable in the disposition of the receipts from day to 

 day. His selections have been made on the basis of 

 his orders in hand or in prospect. He has carefully 

 studied the country that can be reached from this 

 city, and by a course of correspondence or personal 

 interview has built up a clientage that orders from 

 him in such quantities as may be sold profitably. 

 The entire northwest has been carefully studied, and 

 from central Illinois to middle Missouri, western 

 Iowa, central 'Minnesota, and all of Wisconsin, orders 

 have been solicited and some have been received. 

 Weekly quotations are sent, some houses sending two 

 thousand to three thousand at a single issue. These 

 reach every city, town, village, or hamlet within 

 reasonable rail communication, and everything else is 



