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of the situation ? If my friend Nagle I binks so, why T would have to say 

 to him what thai youngster said to his [rish dad. Mickey came home 

 one day from school with the tears streaming down his cheeks and his 

 father said to him, "What is the matter, Mickey"; and Mickey said, 

 "The teacher licked me and you are to blame for it." "I am to blame 

 for it?" "Yes," said Mickey, "You are to blame for it. I asked you 

 the other day how much was a million and you said it was a hell of a lot, 

 and it was the wrong answer." [Laughter.] So, if my friend Nagle 

 persists in thinking that the distribution was along the line of the high- 

 est intelligence, like Mickey. T would have to say that it was the wrong 

 answer. It would not satisfy me if I was a member of the Exchange and 

 knew these facts. Of course, if I did not know the facts and got a return 

 of $2.04 a box and last year I got only $1.04, I would feel very happy 

 and I would think the Exchange was bully and the management was 

 splendid. But if I knew all the facts in the case, if I knew that the 

 general average could have been larger, and could have been made for 

 that day. with intelligent distribution $2.43, I would be exactly like 

 that man who was approached by the census taker and who had to 

 answer all sorts of questions. He got along all right until he came to 

 the question, "Are you married?" and he said. "Yes, I am married, 

 but dissatisfied." With the facts before me as a member I should be 

 obliged to say, "I am entitled to everj penny my product is worth and 

 1 did not gel it. I am dissatisfied." 



This morning then, came to me ye1 another Eacl showing that we are 

 getting further and further behind, that in place of we California fresh 

 fruit growers leading in this matter of distribution, just as we did in 

 the auction business, which has since been adopted by the citrus 

 growers, by the banana growers, by the citrus growers in Florida and 

 more recently by the Oregon 1 apple growers, just as we ought to have 

 led in this scientific method of distribution, we are finding ourselves 

 to be tailcnders. This morning there came to me this clipping from a 

 publication issued in the northwest called "Better Fruit." which shows 

 that the apple distributors of the northwest have seen the folly of their 

 ways of the past and have profited by the experience of Imperial Valley 

 and likewise have established a bureau of distribution. Here is what it 

 says: "Apple distribution in the United Slates. Editor's note.) 

 The following is a sample report mailed daily from the office of Markets 

 of the Department of Agriculture, Spokane, in connection with fruit 

 growers' agencies. Every grower should read this to fully appreciate 

 the reliable information thai is being furnished daily by the office of 

 markets in cooperation with the fruit growers' agencies." Then it 

 goes on to tell of three or four different markets. It tells how on the 



pr ding day there were shipped out seven carloads to New York, three 



carloads to Baltimore, four to Albany, and so on down the line, and 

 then it goes on to show diversions reported yesterday, from Minot one, 

 Grand Forks one. and so on down the line. Now. with all of this 

 information blackboarded, showing almost instantly the overloads and 

 the underloads, we see what a great advantage the distributors have 

 when they know how to distribute their product with the highest degree 

 ot intelligence, giving them the opportunity of doing their business 

 with the fullest light. 



