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the growers. I would in)t promote co-operation on a wide 

 scale at first, but I would have the little town of A, for in- 

 stance, first have co-operation among the fruit growers. 

 I would have them establish a standard pack for 

 their locality, and I would have them get together and get 

 maybe fifty cars, or twenty-five cars of fruit put up after the 

 standard pack. Then if an adjoining town or some other 

 town wanted to come in let them come in and do the same 

 thing. Let several towns come in and do the same 

 thing. In that way you will get them united, and 

 then they can come together for the formation of a 

 larger organization, which might ultimately grow to include 

 the whole state. I do not believe it is possible in general, and 

 the results as I have observed them over the country show 

 that it is not usually successful to attempt to get the whole 

 industry or the whole state to co-operate at one time. The 

 attempts that have failed, according to my way of thinking, 

 have started at the wrong end, 



A Member : What has been done in your section, yir. 

 Tenny, to get rid of this lower grade of fruit, the three of 

 four kinds of lower grade fruit which you referred to? 



Mr. Tenny : There has been no effort, so far as I 

 know\ Of course, we have developed very extensively the 

 practice of drying the fruit. 



A Member : Is that all done by individuals, or is that 

 practiced on a co-operative basis? 



Mr. Tenny : No, that is by individuals wholly. 



A Member: What does that bring in the market? 



Mr. Tenny : That stuff usually brings from fifty to 

 seventy cents. It includes the wormy apples, and the poor 

 stuff generally. These sales in an average year will run 

 from fifty to seventy cents a hundred. 



Vice-President Drew : Is that wh'at it retails for in 

 the market or is it what the farmers get? 



Mr. Tenny : That is what the farmers get for it 

 when they sell it. I think the price varies, and usually runs 

 from fiftv to seventv cents a hundred. 



