INFORMATION REIyATING TO CO-OPERATION AND ASSOC laTION 



Between i April 1913 and i April 1916 the company sold and despatched 

 255,233 tons of raisins together with a small tonnage of other dried 

 fruits, and received therefor a gross sum of more than twenty-two million 

 dollars. In the same period the company .paid the growers more than se- 

 venteen million dollars, af<:er paying the costs of handling, packing and sell- 

 ing the fruit. 



Today the company is well supplied with warehouses and packing 

 plant ; it lias an efficient selling organization ; its " Sun-Maid " is the only 

 nationally advertised and established brand of raisins and dried fruits. Pri- 

 ces have acquired a stability which they previously lacked ; speculation may 

 be said to have been eliminated ; and the value of raisin vineyards has been 

 enhanced. 



The example of the raisin growers has encouraged the peach growers 

 of California to organize themselves on similar lines to 'them. The Cali- 

 fornian prune growers, the pea packers of Wisconsin, the cocoa-nut plan- 

 ters of the Philippines, and many others, are studying the company's or- 

 ganization and methods and trying to adapt them to their own needs. 



