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xation and co-operation ; I do not see anything of a trust in this co-op- 

 eration; it is simply an effort to bring about better distribution. 



Mr. Pauleu — I would like to inquire if you would have this extend 

 all over the United States ? if not, how could you make it profitable? 



A. Well, when we here at Springfield have peaches ready to ship, 

 the whole United States hasn't got them, and all we have to do is to 

 confer with the other places who have peaches ripe at the same time, 

 and co-operate with them and not send all our peaches to the same 

 place at the same time. 



Mr. Gilbert — To illustrate the point I wish to bring out, I will call 

 your attention to the New Orleans market ; I was there last year at 

 peach time, and when I started I was assured that the shipments to that 

 city would be made to the house with whom I was associated ; our 

 peaches were the only fine peaches on the market; there were no 

 peaches from any other state and no peaches from any other part of 

 our State, except those shipped from Mountain Grove, that could equal 

 our peaches. 



Had the growers taken ray advice and consigned the peaches they 

 sent there to one house, and let that house control their peaches and 

 only ship the amount they could handle properly, the peaches sent to 

 New Orleans would have netted the growers at least a dollar a crate 

 more than they did, but instead of that there were two or three that 

 picked over the place and consigned to different houses, and the result 

 was that inside of a week you could find a great big Blberta peach that 

 brought $3.25 a crate when I first went there, selling for as low as a 

 dollar a crate sometimes, and it was the growers fault. 



It does seem to me we could all get together and agree on some 

 action in this matter; put ourselves under bond for at least one year 

 to comply with the stipulations of the agreement we may go into, and 

 make the bond in such a way as to compel us to do that. I believe it 

 would demonstrate to our entire satisfaction that the thing could be 

 * worked on a system and worked successfully. 



Mr. Goodman — The only solution to this question can be that one, 

 or two, or three men, as one man shall be head and have authority to 

 say when they go, where they go and how they go, and until we can 

 have confidence in that man with absolute authority, and when I turn 

 my fruit over I will know whether it is going to California or New 

 York city ; but the man who is at the head of that knows his business, 

 and until we can have confidence in that man or that association to 

 turn over all our fruit, we will have this difficulty ; we cannot help it ; 

 .someone must have this authority and control it. 



Mr. Van Houten — Perhaps something about the Council Bluffs 



