210 MODERN FRUIT MARKETING 
the auction company. Auctions never received the cars 
directly, but they are turned over to them by some au- 
thorized agent of the exchange. As soon as a car of 
fruit is started to the agent, the business manager of the 
central exchange or the sales department manager makes 
a manifest of the contents of the car, giving the name of 
each individual who had fruit in the car, the quantity, 
Fig. 110.—ARRANGING SHIPMENTS IN THE WAREHOUSE 
OF THE AUCTION COMPANY 
variety and grade. This manifest is forwarded to the 
agent and a copy of it turned over to the auction company. 
The auction company then proceeds in one or two 
ways, some take samples from the fruit when it ar- 
rives and sell entirely from the samples. Others make 
up a catalog (Fig. 112), and the fruit is inspected in 
the warehouse or in the car, and then bid off according to 
the statements in the catalog. Where these manifests 
arrive a day ahead of time they can be cataloged and 
ready for the auction at the next morning. Cars that 
have arrived during the afternoon and night of any one 
