2o6 FRUIT HARVESTING, STORING, MARKETING 



VI. COMMISSION CHARGES 



The regular rate of commission for making retail 

 sales of fruit, even when these fruits arrive in carload 

 lots, is ten per cent. I^arge shippers, however, by 

 making special agreement with commission houses, 

 often get better rates. 



In the subjoined table, taken from the American 

 Agriculturist Year Book, 1898, p. 482, the commission 

 charges are given as actually made at various points, 

 but they apply as a rule to relatively small lots. 



VII. SHIPMENT IN REFRIGERATOR CARS 



The following notes on the transportation of fruits 

 in refrigerator cars are given in a recent number of 

 Rural New Yorker ("W. W. H.," in Rural New 

 Yorker, 60:259, April 6, 1901): 



" The use of cold storage in the transportation of fruits has 

 increased greatly of late years, and we find a growing interest 

 in this business from Canada to the south. Perishable 



