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conditions; also one with strong enough personality to 
win the confidence of the dealers, as there is always in- 
formation that the market expert would get and if made 
public would be detrimental to the interests of the 
produce handlers. 
Prices quoted in the dailies are usually wholesale. 
They do not represent what the producer gets nor what 
the consumer pays, but a general medium somewhere 
between. The commission house would report what the 
fruit sold for. The producer would get what was left 
after freight, commission, cartage, etc., was deducted. 
The jobber’s prices would #epresent the same, as they 
buy most of their products on an f. o. b. basis. The 
auction quotations would also be the same, less freight 
and commission to producer. 
To the consumer the profits of the retailer must be 
added to the sales quotation. This is never less than 
15% and usually about 40% and not infrequently 100%. 
Market quotations are always valuable as a guide to the 
producer, but the more the grower can know of their 
methods of collection the better will be his chances of 
getting what his fruit is worth. Each producer must 
make a close study of the market reports, 
