56 THE FRUIT INDUSTRY 



imported to the tune of over 2,000,000 a year. Special 

 attention, therefore, may well be directed to a com- 

 mendable movement which has quite recently led to 

 the formation of a body known as the Hereford 

 Co-operative Fruit-Grading Society, to whose opera- 

 tions I shall devote a separate chapter in connection 

 with the organization movement. 



While the present work is passing through the press, 

 I have received a copy of a thirty-two-page booklet, 

 entitled ' Fruit, Flower, Vegetable, and Potato Growers' 

 Guide,' which has just been issued by the Newcastle- 

 on-Tyne and District Fruit and Potato Merchants' 

 Association, Limited, Pringle's Buildings, St. Andrew's 

 Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne. The special purpose of 

 the Guide is ' to assist growers in placing their produce 

 in populous towns of the North, where ready markets 

 are always obtainable, whether goods are sent to be 

 sold on commission or bought direct from the grower.' 

 Notes which are given with respect to grading, packing, 

 etc., are, it is further explained, * intended to help 

 growers to realize better prices by getting their produce 

 to these markets in prime condition and well selected, 

 to enable producers to secure the profits now going to 

 foreign growers.' Then there is a list of the chief fruit, 

 flower, vegetable, and potato merchants in Newcastle 

 and district, 'to enable growers to make the best 

 possible arrangements for the sale of their produce '; 

 with a corresponding list of growers in and around 

 Wisbech, whose names and addresses are given 'to 

 help the merchants to buy more extensively in the 



