14 BULLETIN 1362, TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTtTEE 
■with the line but are hauled to a display room elsewhere. (See fig. 
7.) In such cases they are sold separately, and usually at a discount 
of approximately 10 per cent below the selling price of the remainder 
of the lot. 
The selection of samples is supposed to be and usually is carried 
on with strict impartiality. But in spite of the fact that most auc- 
tion companies do not countenance the practice, instances have been 
noted frequently where auction receivers removed decayed or other- 
wise defective fruit and substituted sound specimens. This practice, 
known as " dressing the samples," led to the establishment of a rule 
in selling foreign lemons in New York City that a representative 
of the New York Fruit Exchange should select the samples displayed 
for the inspection of buyers. A fee is charged by the exchange for 
Pig. 7. — Auction sample display room. These samples are shown separately from 
the lines from which the T7 were taken. The line numbers written on the ends of 
the packages correspond to the numbers of the lines in the catalogue 
the service. It is maintained by receivers who do not dress the 
samples that the practice is well known to the buyers and that they 
usually discount to a degree the lines offered by receivers who do it 
habitually. It is probably true, however, that where the samples 
are displayed with the lines the buyers are seldom deceived by a 
dressed sample, since they have the privilege of examining other 
packages of their own selection. 
SALESROOMS 
Most of the auction salesrooms are on the upper floors of the 
freight terminals or docks which are used for warehousing and dis- 
playing the products. The buyers occupy seats equipped with wide 
arm rests for writing, which are usually arranged in rising tiers 
as in a theater, to afford the auctioneer and the buyers an unob- 
