Excerpt from The Economic Value of the Auction as a Distributor of Perishable Commodities The importance of Auction in England will be emphasized when it is stated that in the year ending May 1, 1915 there were imported into Liverpool, London and Glasgow about barrels and boxes of American and Canadian apples, nearly all of which were sold at public Auction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.