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including "rots," ninety-eight one
~hundredths OF one cent per pound?
But this Is not what the independ-
ents claim. / have personally seen
IN the newspapers in the last few
weeks that they claim they paid
twice as much as the cooperatives'
Here's another one: Representatives
OF independent shippers tell the
growers who have good fruit that II
they ship through a cooperative that
their returns will be averaged with
those Of growers who ship poor
fruit. Nothing could be more I'M
true. For example. the pools are
handled in this manner:
How Pools Are Handled
II in q given pool. Shipper "A has
1000 boxes Of u. S. No. ] fruit and
he also has 500 boxes Of u. 5. NO. ?
fruit. and Shipper "B" has 100 boxes
of No. / fruit and also has 1000 boxes
OF No. 2 fruit. after the freight and
charges are taken out Of the total
amount brought by the pool. Ship
per "A" having ten times as much
No. I fruit as Shipper B" receives
ten-elevenths GOLD OF the amount
for which the total Of HOO boxes OF
/ No. / fruit sold. without regard 70
what the No. 2 fruit sold for. Ship
per "B" would get o~ne-eleventh
DID Of the amount for which the
LOO boxes of No. ! was sold, and
also Shipper B" having 500 boxes
Of the fatal Of $500 boxes Of No. 7
fruit would receive one-third N-3)
Of the net amount, for which all the
No. 2 was sold, and Shipper b
having 1000 boxes OF the total OF
$500 boxes Of No. 2 fruit sold would
receive two-thirds Of the net amount
for which all the No. 2 fruit was sold
OF course. 1t will be realized that
there IS more fruit than this in g
pool and that sizes IRE also taker
into consideration.
Another mis-statement frequently
made, Is that the National Fruit &
Vegetable Exchange Is paid l2c
box on all the fruit sold by the Ex-
change through this organization
This is far from true. The present
contract with the National reads
that they are paid l2c per box fol
the first 1000 cars shipped by rail
and lie a box above 1000 ars Or
truck sales, the National gets $40
per box and &c per hundred pounds
for ~unclassified. It actually worked
out last season so that the Nationa'
was paid an average Of SIC per boz
Out Of this amount the Nationa
pays all sales expense. including
brokerage, except the commission
which goes to auction companies
This includes $500 to Mr.. Miller. a.
sales manager. and the expense anc
salaries Of the sales force in the Ex'
change office. and all wire and tele'
phone expense.
Mr.. Miller. who Is nc the present
time general manager Of the Elk
change and sales manager for thu
National. is also paid $500 by thu
Exchange as its general manager
Some funny people thing the Elk
change is trying TO hide these fig.
Hres. The books are open to any.
one who takes the trouble to look a
them. and the above figures ar
taken from the Annual ADULTS mad
or approved by the Farm Credit Ad.
ministration.
Here's another. and the funnies
one Of all: According 10 the goSSipS
my salary varies from Si5.000.00 d
SIS. 10000 per year. I wish 1t die
but. as a matter Of fact. I have new
er received one penny from the Elk
change. or any Of its Associations
for my services in three years. A
times. when ] have made trips /
Austin and Washington, in the In
terests Of the industry. my expense
have been paid. or rather partly paic
by the Exchange and also partl
by independent shippers. Whe
working in the Valley. not eve.
mileage has been accepted or offer
ed except. that as all directors.
draw mileage when attending direc
tors meetings.