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Broken car. A trade term referring to a car from which a part of the contents 
have been removed. 
Car-lot assembler. A term commonly applied to country merchants or buyers 
who purchase in small lots and combine into car-lot quantities. 
Car-lot wholesalers. Distributors who buy fruits and vegetables in car-lot 
quantities and sell to the jobbing or retail trade. 
Commission merchant. A dealer on the market who receives shipments on 
consignment and sells to the best advantage, remitting the proceeds to the 
shipper after deducting freight, drayage and other expenses, and a specified 
commission. 
Consignee. A party to whom goods are consigned or shipped. 
Cooperative associations. Organizations of producers incorporated for the 
purpose of grading, packing, shipping, or selling products grown by members 
of the association. 
Distributors. Individuals, corporations, or associations whose business it is 
to route, distribute, or market agricultural products. 
Draft. A written order from one person to another to pay to the order of the 
drawer or of a third person a stated sum of money. In the marketing of 
perishable products the term "draft" is used most frequently to designate 
that document which is attached to the bill of lading and forwarded through 
the banks for collection. 
Invoice. A statement sent to a consignee which gives a list of goods which 
have been shipped to the consignee in question. 
Jobbers. Dealers at distributing centers who buy, usually in less than car-lot 
quantities, from car-lot wholesalers or commission merchants and who in 
turn sell to the retail trade. 
Jobbing- price. The price at which the jobber buys his goods. 
Middlemen. According to popular usage this term applies to all those who 
share in the profits and losses incident to the handling of goods between the 
producer and consumer. 
Operators. Large wholesale firms which send their buyers or solicitors into 
producing sections and which, through representatives or branch houses In 
several large markets, secure a wide distribution for products which they 
purchase or handle on consignment. 
Private exchanges. Distributing organizations incorporated as stock com- 
panies and operated for profit. They distribute car-lot shipments for indi- 
vidual shippers or producers' organizations, selling through salaried repre- 
sentatives or brokers. 
Protest, acceptance under. Acceptance of a car by the consignee with the 
proviso that he reserves the right to enter claim later against the railroad. 
Retailing. According to strict interpretation this term refers to sales made 
by the retailer. On large terminal markets, however, selling to the retail 
trade is popularly referred to as retailing. 
Yendee. One to whom a sale is made. 
Tendor. One who makes a sale. 
