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fected and dried by the jobbers before being offered to 
the public. Walnut meats are hand-brushed and then 
disinfected before re-packing. Cocoanuts are ground 
and shredded, spices re-cleaned, extracts refined in the 
jobbers’ special warehouses. Our people have become so 
Fig. 123—ROASTING COFFEE IN A NEW YORK JOBBING HOUSE 
accustomed to seeing foreign goods packed in good 
American packages that they have ceased to wonder at 
the wide knowledge of English the world over. 
Business Credit—It will be worth while to digress 
here slightly to comment upon the credit system built 
up by the jobbing business. While capital must neces- 
sarily be represented, and often in a big way, the bulk 
of the monthly business is conducted entirely on credit. 
