166 THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 



This is my message to you, my friends, and this is the story. If the 

 fruit growers of the state of California and the members of the 

 Exchange are satisfied, the stale must rest content. If you as fruit 

 growers and you as members of 1 1n* Exchange are perfectly willing that 

 this shall go on, well and good. I should then feel as did that youngster 

 when his Irish daddy said. "Mickey, where would you be if I died?" 

 And Mickey said, "Oh, I would be here all right. The question is, 

 where would you be?" And so, if you, my friends, are satisfied with 

 the existing system and the present unenlightened method of distribu- 

 tion, why. I am satisfied. 1 have no compulsory powers under the law. 

 I cannot stand over the fruit growers of California and say, "You have 

 got to come into this proposition." It must be purely a voluntary 

 arrangement. My function is to bring you the facts, to present to you 

 the conditions and to point out the way. The resl must depend upon 

 you. 



I feel that I can now leave this whole matter entirely in your hands 

 and abide bv Your decision. 



SCIENTIFIC DISTRIBUTION OF FRUIT. 



Discussion by J. L. Naole, Manager of the California Fruit Exchange, 

 Sacramento, Cal. 



Before I have anything to say regarding the California Fruit 

 Exchange, I trust that Colonel Weinstock will permit me to correct 

 two of his .statements. 



The first is that I have no recollection of ever having said that 

 the fruit growers of California did not need a state market bureau, 

 but I did say emphatically (and I trust I will be able to show you facts 

 why) the California Fruit Exchange does not need a state market 

 bureau. 



Secondly, it is evident that Colonel Weinstock has accepted the sta- 

 tistics of our sales from our competitors. He believes he is honest in 

 his report when he says that our average on Monday. July 24, Mas 

 $1.99. Instead of that, Mr. Weinstock. I trust you will accept my 

 figures, which are correct. Our sale price on Monday was $2.06 and 

 our high mark was $2. 50. We never reached a mark as low as our 

 competitors. 



Now. before I will go into the details of this chart, considerable has 

 been said and made public by Mr. Weinstock with reference to the 

 nonadherence of the California Fruit Exchange to the proposed state 

 market bureau plan. It is coincident that at the Thirty-Third State 

 Fruit Growers Convention held sixteen years ago in the city of Fresno, 

 that as a result of the chaotic condition of the deciduous fruit industry 

 of the state, there was conceived at that time a fruit growers organiza- 

 tion then known as the California Fresh Fruit Exchange. This 

 institution was cooperative in principle and policy and organized by 

 fruit growers for the betterment of conditions and for the uplift of 

 the industry, which at that time was in a deplorable state. Growers 

 were receiving "red ink" sales and were forced to put mortgages on 

 their farms, and as the industry was in the control of speculators, 

 it became necessary to wrest it from their hands and place it under 



