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14. Purchase of Power Sprayers. — The directors may procure one or 

 more power sprayers, for use in the Community, and may provide for 

 their Operation, on such terms as shall save the association from expense 

 for such Operation. 



15. Incurring Indebtedness. — The Board of Directors shall not, with- 

 out special authority from the stockholders, seil any real estate belonging 

 to the association, nor mortgage any of its property. They may however 

 incur any indebtedness which may seem necessary in conducting the 

 business of the association. The authorization of such expenditure shall 

 be entered on the minutes of the Board, and the evidences of such 

 indebtedness shall be signed by the president and countersigned by the 

 secretary, and shall be binding on the association. 



16. Appropriation for Trips.- — The Board may appropriate not to 

 exceed fifty dollars, in any year, toward expenses of visiting other like 

 associations, or toward defraying expenses of experts or of representa- 

 tives of other associations whom they may wish to visit this association. 

 Any director or other stockholder who may be selected to visit other 

 associations shall, upon his return, file with the secretary a detailed 

 aecount of his observations and conclusions during such visit. 



17. Rules for Grading, Packing, Etc. — The directors shall have power 

 to make rules relative to picking, grading, handling and packing the 

 produets of its members, and to exercise the Option of refusing to handle 

 or purchase any produets not conforming to such requirements, or of 

 causing the same to be re-graded or re-packed at expense of grower, for 

 which expense the association shall have a lien on such produets and on 

 their proeeeds. 



18. Monthly Audit. — The directors shall appoint a committee of three, 

 one of whom shall be a director and two of whom shall be stockholders 

 other than directors, whose duty shall be to make a monthly checking of 

 the books and aecounts of the association, and to render a monthly report 

 thereof to the Board. For each such report each of said committee shall 

 reeeive one dollar. 



19. Marketing Contracts. — In order that the directors may be able 

 intelligently to estimate the amount of supplies necessary for the ensuing 

 year, and work to advantage in making sales, they shall require all stock- 

 holders wishing the association to handle any or all their produets to 

 sign contracts to that effect. Said contracts sball cover the entire crop 

 of the produet therein speeified and shall remain in force from year to 

 year, unless canceled during the month of January, which provision shall 

 be recited in the contract. Said contract shall be in form as set forth at 

 the end of these by-laws. 



20. Handling for Non-Stockholders.— The directors shall not handle 

 the produet of non-stockholders, nor shall it handle for a member any 

 produet not covered by the contract just referred to. Nothing herein 

 contained shall prevent the directors from buying the produets of mem- 

 bers of the association or of non-members, whenever they shall consider 

 it advisable and profitable to do so. 



21. Definition of Handling. — -The phrase "handling", as used in these 

 by-laws, applies to all cases where produets are not bought on the market 

 for cash, and with the idea of profit to the association. 



22. Pooling.- — The directors may make rules governing the sale of 

 members' fruit in groups, commonly called pools, and governing the 

 distribution of the proeeeds of such sales. 



23. The Handling Charge. — The association shall Charge a commission 

 of not to exceed ten per cent for their Services to members in handling 

 and selling their produet. Said commission shall be called the handling 

 charge, and shall be dedueted from the proeeeds due growers for such 



