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which itemized account sales can be 

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 meets his expenses or not. I believe I 

 can see this question from both sides 

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Getting Together in Marketing 



Continued from last issue 



Next to creating a disposition to get 

 together, the important move .just at 

 present is to get the jobbers and deal- 

 ers on the consuming end to help us 

 increase our outlets. It is a waste of 

 energy to think of building up a com- 

 petitive organization to our present 

 jobbers. Our best success depends on 

 getting their co-operation, getting their 

 liumlrcds of traveling fruit salesmen to 

 helj) us get the comnuinities they visit 

 ready for our fruits, at the proper time, 

 before the fruits are too ripe and mar- 

 kets glutted. In the past, the fruit sales- 

 man in the Middle West has been tell- 

 ing [he retailers to wait for the glut, 

 and they have waited. We want to get 

 our joint-selling boards and reciprocal 

 marketing arrangements so perfected 

 that the trade will not wait but will 

 order from the first. 1 believe an or- 

 ganized effort should be made through 

 the Western Fruit .lobbers' Association, 

 representing all the jobbers west of 

 Chicago. Live distributors at the other 

 end who are familiar with our problem 

 can be of great assistance to us in pre- 

 paring markets to take a much larger 

 supply than they now take. I think a 

 committee from the Northwest fruit 

 shippers should be sent to the .January 

 meeting of the Western I'ruit .lobbers' 

 Association to be held in Memphis and 

 secure their co-o])eration. 



Another thing we need is more sym- 

 pathetic co-operation of railroad.s — 

 loading in transit and unloading in 

 transit, less heater charges and diver- 

 sion charges, and less freight rates, 

 especially apples to Chicago. It has 

 been suggested that 20,000 cars of 

 apples are likely to be grown in the 

 Northwest next year, and that we may 

 fall down marketing them. It is not 

 whether we have ten thousand or 

 twenty cars to market, we only have 

 from six to ten per cent of the apple 

 crop of the I'nited States in either 

 event. The big factors are, first, 

 whether we are organized proi)erly to 

 market any amount, and, second, fruit- 

 crop conditions elsewhere and world 

 conditions. If we cannot get our states- 

 men to provide a merchant marine; if 

 we cannot get the railroads Interested 

 ill oiu- industry except to see what new 

 taxes and hardships (luy can impose 

 ui)on us, w'e are indeed in hard sirails. 

 But 1 believe if we go after il in 

 e.-irnesl, if we get together and w<irl< 

 logelher, we can gi'l necessar\' con- 



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