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 ealling; 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 earefully 
studied the country that ean 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 
Jowa, 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 
