234 MODERN FRUIT MARKETING 
particularly handle enormous quantities of the various 
fruit byproducts. The great bulk of the f. o. b. sales 
made by fruit exchanges go to these jobbing houses. 
They keep watch of the importations and have their 
agents constantly at the auctions to keep the warehouses 
supplied from day to day. 
The commodities they handle are without number, 
and many of the articles of food consumed daily by the 
average individual have been prepared for him by the 
jobbers in ways he is little aware of. Our favorite 
brands of coffee, supposed to come direct from the grow- 
ers in the tropics, are usually cleaned, mixed, graded, and 
roasted in the warehouse of the jobbers in New York and 
Boston (Fig. 123). The tea from China and Ceylon, im- 
ported in great unsightly, crude packages, is put into 
usable and respectable looking packages before being 
passed along to the consumer. Olives from Spain and 
Italy are ungraded, unsized and packed in huge hogs- 
heads when imported. These are put through a rigid 
grading process. The best olives are stuffed and placed 
in American made bottles. The rest are sorted to size and 
color, and put into various packages according to their 
condition. 
The dates from Africa, the dried currants? from 
Greece, the cocoanuts from South America and spices 
from the tropics are all put through a cleaning process 
in the warehouse of the jobbers in this country. Few 
of the more intelligent of the consuming public would 
enjoy eating most of this imported fruit if they saw it 
before the jobbers made it over into presentable form. 
Most of the dates, figs and currants are washed, disin- 
2 Really a grape. 
