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ripe and the price thus set has ruled the
market and been very hard to raise. The
object OF the association has been TO COM
! pei fruit buyers to come to it and it
would deal fairly and justly with them.
An institution which can control 100000
pounds OF fruit has the power to protect
! Itself by setting fair price and the small
/ grower who belongs TO it is thus pro-
! tected. He knew neighbors of his who
/ by belonging to the Exchange realized
! from 10 cents more for their fruit than
those who did not. The only possible
way III which a cooperative association
can be successful is to have confidence in
one another.
! Barton of Placer asked if there was no
way OF Furnishing the spectators who
set the price of fruit three months in adj
vance of its maturity.
Mr. Hersey replied that he knew of
! none, except as a friend of his was pun
! lshee, VINO set the price at 81 cents and
agreed to deliver it at that time and
had to buy at u in order to ill his con-
! tract.
y member said that he thought that the
/ good prices for dried fruit this season
! were partly due TO the fact that specula-
/ tors had sold short and had to pay we'll
IN order to till their contracts.
/ Mr.. Uersey said there were many IN
J business who set the price in advance in
/ order TO create market and make il basis
for prices, doing it legitimately. The
| Fruit Exchange enables the small grower
! who has little fruit and has to have
money 10 realize on a portion of il and
! be able to retain the rest until the condi-
! ton OF the market enables him to sell it
| at Il far price without quitting and de-
! pressing the market. He was not as SAN
! sulne as Mr.. WeinStock Oh the subject of
overproduction. The first fair crop we
have will furnish fair opportunity to
! nj hn
competitor 10 us on the markets. The
/ people, however, are becoming more in
! le!llgent on this subject, hence these aSso-
/ Citations.
STATE FRUIT EXCHANGE.
b. f. Walton OF Yuba City recited the
resolutions adopted at Los Angeles last
year at the State horticultural Convention.
| They were to the effect that the condi-
tons at that time, unless checked,
| must result i'll disaster and ruin 10 pro-
! ducers, and favored cooperation. 10
this end they strongly Endorsed the plan
oil State Fruit Exchange, and urged all
! growers TO take an interest IN the move
ment, and recommended Il meeting Tor
Its consideration. The meeting was held
and the organization perfected. The Con-
| ventIon OF December %, 1888, formally
recognized the California Fruit Exchange
and 1t was atterward incorporated. Ed
| win h. Adams, who was selected as
Manager, resigned alter the incorpora-
ton, but his resignation was never ac-
! copied and he still fills the position.
The organization has proved a success
! and Is growing and receiving constantly
new accessions from different parts OF the
State and has been OF great benefit TO the
! producers. The method of supporting it
has been either by contributions or by
| the sale of stock. The officers ask the
convention if, provided its work meets
| with It's appreciation, to strengthen til cir
hands by the manifestation OF its au-
! prevail. The lines of It's advance have
been carefully laid out. One of the requi-
sites of its success is that the association
must first be perfected and organized.
ADVANTAGES OF AN EXCHANGE.
! L. L. Adams, Manager OF the State
! Fruit Exchange, in his address said that
those who had listened To the remarks OF
Messrs. Buck, Weinstock and others
would see that there was not wide diff
! ference in the opinions of those who mad
/ the solution OF this question at heart, and
! his would be largely III accordance with
/ what had gone before. The idea OF a State
/ Exchange is that better prices may be
attained by its agency. II 1T were not so
there would be 40 use for one.
a State Exchange can never become
! successful by struggle to secure bust
ness. 1t can only become so by the vol
| untary confidence reposed in it, and not
| by trying 10 secure the trade of its own
| customers. All wish to obtain intorlna-
/ ton, but tho Importance of information
! lies in its accuracy, and this needs money
! to accomplish 1t. If fruit-growers do not
! wish to furnish the money, the informa-
ton cannot be obtained. He outlined the
! plan of carrying on the exchange, the
! eX penseS attendant OH its operation and
! the improvements needed III it. The
need OF a central agency is plain and un-
! less it is established DO success can be at
tanned. The firms already in the fruit
! business must be taken into considera-
! tiou, and the fact that before the next
! crop comes into market large advances
will have been made Oh il by them, and
| they, OF course, will control the handling
! OF the crop of those to whom money has
! been advanced, and handle it in their
! own way.
This is perfectly natural and business
! like, and he had no fault to find with the
commission houses for protecting them
! selves, as they bad a perfect right 10 do,
| What we want, said he, is to handle orr
| own business in such a way as TO bring
! the best returns. We cannot reform the
! shipping OF fruit by organizing a single
shipping organization. That simply adds
one more house to the list. Local organ
| izaLions simply fail in attaining the re-
suits. Until we are organized we can DO
nothing, but organized into a State En-
change we can accomplish anything
proper in a business way. The local as
sociations must be brought into COM
municatlon with each other through the
State Exchange. Any organization
which contains within itself interests adj
verso TO each other must fail sooner or
later. The state Exchange can only live
by the support OF the local exchanges.
and as they furnish the money they can
| control it.
! He outlined the mutual relations of tie
State and local exchanges, which showed
the State Exchange to be only the agent
of the local exchanges, transacting their
! business for them as they wished. There
are hundreds oil growers in the State who
acknowledge the benefits they have re-
/ ceived from cooperation, but who say
/ they cannot afford 10 pay their share for
! its support Such persons should be-
come members ana give it their support.
Mr.. Berwick asked Mr.. Adams if tue
| exchange intended to ship green fruit
| next season.
Mr.. Adams answered that it did, ii the
| people OF the State would furnish il with
! money TO do so. No matter who are
| chosen next year as directors the general
plan of action will be the same. There
might be Il little difference of details, but
the end will be the same. An organizer
has to convice people that it is for their
own interest to come in and help support
the association, and it takes persistent
work, alter he has prepared himself by
| obtaining knowledge OF the subject 1t
costs money to organize, as men cannot
afford to give their time and work for
nothing. Men must be persuaded, and it
takes time and work.
AN INVITATION.
The President announced that he was
requested TO say that at 8 A. NJ. and 4