BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FRUIT AND PRODUCE AUCTIONS 
[Compiled in the library, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, IT. S. Department of Agri- 
culture, May 13, 1925] 6 
American Commission to Investigate and Study Agricultural Credit and 
Cooperation. Agricultural cooperation and rural credit in Europe. 
Washington, Government Printing Office, 1913-14. U. S., 63d Cong., 1st 
sess., Senate Doc. 214. 
Cooperative auction markets [in the Netherlands] : pp. 527-528. 
American Fruit and Produce Auction Association, New York. What the 
grower should know. A handbook of reliable information. N. Y., 1915. 
American Institute of Agriculture, Chicago. Lessons. 
Brand, C. J. The auction method of selling. 1923. Its marketing fruit 
and vegetables, Lesson 9. 
Converse, P. D. Middlemen, who they are and how they operate. 1922. 
Its Lesson B. 
Auction companies : pp. 27-28. 
Auction Markets for New England. In New England Homestead, vol. 73, 
No. 6, August 5, 1916, pp. 5, 9. 
Auction Selling is Gaining. In Rural New Yorker, vol. 75, No. 4364, Feb. 5, 
1916, p. 199. 
Bartlett, J. T. F. O. B. auction sales of California fruit. In Printers' Ink, 
vol. 126, No. 9, Feb. 28, 1924, p. 97. 
Blythe, S. O. F. O. B. auctions ; sitting in at the newest thing in selling 
fruits and vegetables. In Country Gentleman, vol. 89, No. 16, April 19, 
1924, pp. 6, 24. 
Brown, B. S. Modern fruit marketing. N. Y., 1916. Pp. 209-216 devoted to 
fruit auctions. 
Cherington, P. T. Elements of marketing. N. Y., Macmillan Co., 1920. 
On p. 78 there is a statement that " in seventeen of the chief cities of the 
country a large part of the fruit supply enters the market through public auctions, 
and in these sales trustworthy grading is essential to satisfactory sale." 
Clark, F. E. Chapters in marketing. Evanston, 111., 1919. Mimeographed. 
Paragraph only on p. 58. 
Clark, F. E. Principles of marketing. N. Y., 1924. 
Exchanges and auction companies : pp. 68—69 ; the auction company, pp. 87-88. 
Clark, F. E. Headings in marketing. N. Y., 1924. 
Auction markets for fruits and vegetables : pp. 151-154. — Adapted from the pub- 
lications of E. G. Nourse and the U. S. Federal Trade Commission noted below. 
Collins, J. H., J. W. Fischer, and W. A. Sherman. Methods of wholesale dis- 
tribution of fruits and vegetables on large markets. Washington, 1915. 
U. S. Dept. Agr. Bui. 267. 
Auction sales are discussed on pages 14 and 15. 
Converse, P. D. Marketing methods and policies. N. Y. 1921. 
Chapter 7, The sale of goods at auction, pp. 169-186. Exchange versus Auc- 
tions : p. 189. 
Copeland, M. T. Problems in marketing. 2d ed. Chicago and N. Y. 1923. 
Boston terminal market sales by auction : pp. 226-228. 
Deegan, J. F. Going ! going ! gone ! ! selling fruit at auction. In Amer. Fruit 
Grower, vol. 41, no. 6, June 1912, pp. 5, 14-15. 
Deegan, J. F. How fruit is sold at auction. In Amer. Fruit Grower, vol. 41, 
No. 7, July 1921, p. 6. 
Development of Fruit and Vegetable Auction Sales. In Market Growers' 
Jour., vol. 32, No. 8, April 15, 1923, p. 291. 
Downer, C. B. Auction system of selling perishables. In Market Growers' 
Jour., vol. 20, No. 8, April 15, 1917, pp. 339-340. 
Duncan, C. S. Marketing; its problems and methods. N. Y., 1920. 
The auction : pp. 152-154. 
Erdman, H. E. Fruit auctions of New York City. In Calif. Countryman, 
vol. 10, No. 4, April 1924, pp. 8-9, 26. 
6 This list includes a number of references to textbooks on marketing, but no attempt 
has been made to cover this field exhaustively, 
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