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Second. To secure and maintain confidence between 

 buyers and sellers by providing for inspection of the 

 fruit, and branding the same according to quality, as 

 follows : " Fancy," highest brand ; No. i, second highest ; 

 No. 2, third highest ; and No. 3, the lowest brand. 



Third. To sell by auction to the highest bidder, for 

 cash. For this sale, with inspection, the charge is one 

 cent per basket, to be paid by the grower. 



Fourth. The headquarters to be at Wyoming, 

 Kent County, Delaware, with inspectors at such other 

 stations on the Peninsula, as may be desired, or may be 

 practicable ; these branch inspectors to inspect and 

 grade the fruit, and report it when so graded and 

 inspected by the car-load, to Wyoming, when it is to be 

 put up and sold by the car-load to the highest bidder, 

 with the grade guaranteed by the Delaware Fruit 

 Exchange. This is business, and there is absolute con- 

 fidence guaranteed betv/een buyer and seller ; the profit 

 and satisfaction to each can only be appreciated by 

 those who thus transact this business. 



Only stockholders can sell fruit in the Exchange, 

 but a non-stockholder may sell his fruit through a 

 stockholder, by paying the usual commission of one 

 cent per basket. 



The expenses of the Exchange are : pay for 

 inspectors, for travelling agents looking up markets, 



