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showing just where every orchard and evevy vineyard is, and a complete 

 mailing list of all the growers and their telephone numbers. "We intend 

 to have men out on the road throughout the entire season, gathering 

 reports from these districts as to the rain, the wind and frost, crop 

 conditions, and, in fact, everything that will tend to affect the growers' 

 prices. All this information and data is to be compiled and at the 

 service of our members. A bureau of this sort can best be conducted 

 through an exchange, by the aid of the local papers and the Associated 

 Press dispatches to all the daily papers in the United States. Only large 

 exchanges or boards of trade can obtain this sort of information, and 

 such wide publicity cannot be obtained in anj^ other way but through 

 them, except at a tremendous cost. 



As Mr. Dargitz said this morning about the dried fruit association, 

 we must organize, we must stand together. Look at the almond growers ; 

 see what they have accomplished, and this by organizing and doing away 

 with the speculative element. We feel here in the United States as a 

 nation that we each like to have our own way, and so the growers feel 

 as though each wants to be free to sell when we wish to. My aim and 

 great desire is to consolidate these seven thousand growers into a million- 

 dollar company for doing business financially, and into a raisin ex- 

 change for the actual exchange of raisins for cash and the collection and 

 publication of information. 



I thank you very much for your kind attention and interest. 



Mr. Swett. Mr. Chairman, I have a resolution I would like to 

 present at this time : 



Whereas, The practice of shipping green and immature fruit from California to 

 the eastern markets Is an injury to the State at large, and often a financial loss to 

 the growers themselves ; 



Resolved, That we, the California Fruit Growers' Association, at its forty-second 

 semi-annual meeting in December, 1912, at Fresno, California, hereby endorse the 

 efforts of the state administration to bring about a standardization of fruits, so that 

 with inspection at both ends our products may reach the consumer in good edible 

 condition. 



Mr. Shepherd. Mr. Chairman, I think that would be a very unjust 

 resolution. That would lead the country to misconstrue just what is 

 meant, and would work irreparable harm to the orange industry in 

 California. 



Chairman Cook. We will refer the resolution back to the Com- 

 mittee on Resolutions. 



