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 Figure 9. 



may be sold, the importance of production in determining prices points clearly 

 to the need of having accurate forecasts of the crop early in the marketing 

 season. 



Since 1907 the American Cranberry Exchange has been an important factor 

 in the marketing of the cranberry crop. Briefly, the American Cranberry Ex- 

 change started in 1907 when the new cranberry sales companies in Massa- 

 chusetts, New Jersey, and Wisconsin jointly created a selling corporation 

 known as the National Fruit Exchange and according to their estimates dis- 

 tributed 34 percent of the total crop of the country. A period of competition 

 with the Growers' Cranberry Company followed. This ended in 1911 when 

 the two companies united to form the American Cranberry Exchange. The 

 estimated percentage of the crop handled by the combined companies was 53 



