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to be charged, if agents were allowed to deal directly with 

 associations or district exchanges. These telegrams tell 

 of offers, the condition of cars, diversions that have been 

 made; and they ask for instructions on various matters. 

 They also set forth the demands of the various markets, 

 ks to quantities, sizes, and varieties. A third statement 

 presents a tabulation of all the orange sales of the previous 

 day, together with the prices and pertinent remarks, such 

 as the amount of decay. 



Auction markets are maintained at Boston, New York, 

 Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati, 

 St. Louis and New Orleans, and sales at these places, which 

 amount to about one-third of the total sales, are listed sep- 

 arately from those in the markets of the private agents. 

 Another statement gives this same information in regard 

 to lemons. A fifth sheet gives a bird's-eye view of all the 

 cars of the whole system that are rolling or on track, and 

 another document presents the summaries for the whole 

 citrus industry of California, including both exchange and 

 hon-exchange shipments for the preceding day, the total 

 cars that the exchange and others have shipped during the 

 whole season, and how these totals compare with totals for 

 the same day during previous years. In addition to the 

 daily bulletin, the Exchange prepares weekly and monthly 

 bulletins which summarize those items of information which 

 will aid an association or district exchange manager in in- 

 telligently regulating his shipments. 



This market information service, so extraordinary among 

 agricultural industries, means the difference between hap- 

 hazard and rational distribution, for each association and 

 district exchange manager has both a comprehensive and 

 detailed view not only of his own shipments but of all ex- 

 change shipments, and knows the conditions and demands 

 not merely in the markets to which he has shipped but in 



