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Pacific Rural Press consisting of an article by Alden Anderson, 

 Lieutenant-Governor of California, descriptive of the aims and 

 purposes of the California Fruit Distributors, which is a kind of 

 clearing house for deciduous fruit growers in California which 

 enables the producers tliemselves to control their market. 



General discussion, approving cooperation and the reaching out 

 for a market, followed, the end being that a motion carried that 

 the report of the committee be adopted, and the committee of 

 five retained with orders to endeavor to effect a combination to 

 control the market for the growers in time to make profit of the 

 next year's crop of pineapples. The organization of these is ex- 

 pected to be followed by organization and cooperation along 

 broader lines, so that in time the island growers of tropical and 

 sub-tropical products will reach and regulate the immense ^Iain- 

 land markets which, as yet, have hardly been touched for both 

 fresh and prepared fruit products. 



After the discussion, it was made known that J. E. Higgins 

 will go to the Mainland within the next few weeks to study mar- 

 ket conditions with reference to pineapples and bananas particu- 

 larly, to find out why fruit shipped does not arrive in good order, 

 to see whether prices cannot be improved, and to make the ex- 

 periment of shipping a carload of bananas, pineapples, alligator 

 pears and mangoes from San Francisco straight through to Xew 

 York. 



The following paper was read by Mr. John Emmeluth: 



CO-OPERATIVE MARKETING. 



The various agricultural enterprises in these Islands are con- 

 fronted by market conditions, both as to purchase of supplies and 

 the disposition of their crops — practically unknown on the ^Iain- 

 land. 



Twenty-one hundred miles distance by water lies between the 

 local port of entry and the nearest Mainland port with which wo 

 can exchange commodities. 



Add to this the untoward local conditions confronting the 

 majority of agriculturists in getting supplies to their sev^^ra' 

 holdings or their output to the most convenient port of shiprn.nt 

 and you have before you the initial cause of the individual grow- 

 er's lam.ent. 



Couple with these factors the constantly varying prices for 

 supplies required in preparing the crop for market on the one 



