Fruits ami Vegetables. 



the honest method of sales, because publicly made ; second, 

 it is the prompt method, owing to the fact that the buyers 

 congregate and will take any quantity of fruit or produce at 

 the market price ; third, its chief merit lies in the fact that 

 the word auction signifies competition of the buyers in order 

 to obtain the desired goods. By the old method of selling 

 there is often and perhaps always a competition of the sellers 

 to make the buyers purchase. About five \ ears, ago after 

 considerable experience in the English markets, I came to 

 the conclusion that if I inaugurated the system here it would 

 be bound to grow in popularity owing to its many honest ad- 

 vantages, and accordingly I started the business at my pres- 

 ent location, and in one commodity alone its growth will 

 show whether or not my judgment was correct. My first 

 sales of Florida oranges at auction for a year comprised about 



The first year of California fruit sales at auction there were sold 

 56 cars. Last year I sold 573 cars. 



"I am the only one that has ever attempted to dispose of 

 vegetables at auction, and wherever I have attempted this 



has been 100 per cent, over the first efforts.' In my opinion, 

 in a few years everything that is raised from the ground in the 

 way of perishable fruits or vegetables will be disposed of at 



"At first, in the various markets of the country, the plan 

 was considered absurd, but the fact that in every market of 

 any size^in the United States there are now auction houses, 



within a short time every market will have such an establish- 

 ment to dispose of all its perishable receipts. The most 



tity are "oranges ^nd ^emonTVom 'California. ' Florida" 1 and 

 Europe. After that other California fruits follow, and then 

 eastern products. In California the growers are unanimously 



cent, of the producers favor it. From the Hudson river and 

 in sections that have heretofore disposed of their products by 

 private sale system, we are now getting consigments which 

 are likely to grow into a very large business." 



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