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thereby enabling it to secure the information through which the sub- 

 exchanges distribute the fruit intelligently. The local exchanges and 

 the associations receive a daily bulletin from the central exchange, which 

 outlines the condition of all the markets the preceding day, states the 

 selling price of all exchange cars, and gives the growers such informa- 

 tion as will help them to pack and distribute their fruit to the best 

 advantage. 



THE CITRUS PROTECTIVE LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA. 



The citrus industry of California has formed a voluntary organiza- 

 tion, known as the Citrus Protective League, to handle the public 

 policy questions that affect the industry as a whole. This organization 

 represents about ninety per cent of the shippers and shipping organiza- 

 tions in all parts of the State in handling such questions as railroad 

 rates and transportation problems, customs, tariffs, and other govern- 

 mental relations, state and federal legislation that applies directly to 

 the citrus industry, and all other questions of a general nature that 

 affect the upbuilding of the industry, except the marketing of the fruit. 



The league has brought about reductions in the freight and refrigera- 

 tion rates on citrus fruits, which have saved the producers millions of 

 dollars. It secured through Congress the equalization of the tariff duty 

 between oranges and lemons by securing an increase in the duty on 

 lemons, more nearly equal to the difference in the cost of producing the 

 lemons as compared with the oranges. The league brought about the 

 promulgation of new regulations regarding the determination of decay 

 in imported fruit, thus protecting the California industry against unfair 

 competition ; and, in general, has secured the aid of the State and Fed- 

 eral Government in the study of the nutrition troubles, production of 

 citrus by-products, and constructive questions affecting the industry. 



