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day are usually sold on the next morning’s auction. 
They are usually put up in lots of 10 or 20 packages, 
and if any individual happens to have less than a lot 
of 10 they will be auctioned off separately, allowing each 
man’s fruit to be sold by itself. 
Most auction companies provide regular warehouses 
in which the fruit can be handled. They also have con- 
Fig. 111.—FRUIT SAMPLES ARRANGED IN THE WAREHOUSE 
OF AN AUCTION COMPANY 
venient auction rooms. These are arranged something 
like the seats in a theatre (Fig. 113). Each member be- 
longing to the auction company is assigned to a seat and, 
when anything is put up that he is interested in, he goes 
and bids in as much as desired, as each article comes up 
for sale. This makes everything open and above board, and 
gives a chance for the public and the owner to go in and 
watch his goods auctioned off, and gives an opportunity 
for the agent of the company to check up. There is not 
the possibility of doing the rebate work that sometimes oc- 
eurs in the other lines of fruit selling. 
