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383) will appreciate that no detailed analysis of prin- 

 ciples, methods and materials can be undertaken in 

 this connection. Details of ways of handling such di- 

 verse products as the very names of the associations 

 indicate would fill a volume of close technical infor- 

 mation. Usually readers who desire to know details 

 about particular products can secure them by cor- 

 respondence with the headquarters of the organiza- 

 tions covering them,, which are located in the list 

 especially prepared for this book, up to the date of 

 publication. Discussion of the principles of coopera- 

 tion which are applied in the operation of the Cali- 

 fornia organizations is also apart from the purpose of 

 this writing; nor is reference to them in detail at all 

 necessary because careful treatises on the subject are 

 available. 1 Other methods of organization are given 

 in detail in the reports of the California State Mar- 

 ket Director, an officer charged by law with promo- 

 tion of producers' marketing organizations. 



It will readily be inferred from the fact that three 

 whole books and five reports, in addition to continu- 

 ous popular publication, are required to outline and 

 discuss them, that the policies and methods of Cali- 

 fornia cooperative organizations are neither simple 



1 "Cooperation in Agriculture" by G. Harold Powell. New 

 York. Also by the same author, "Fundamental Principles of 

 Cooperation in Agriculture." Circ. 222, Calif. Exp. Sta., 1920. 

 "Cooperative Marketing : its advantages as exemplified in the 

 California Fruit Growers Exchange" by W. W. Cumberland. 

 Princeton University Press. 1917. "Cooperative and other Or- 

 ganized Methods of Marketing California Horticultural Prod- 

 ucts," by John William Lloyd. University of Illinois Studies in 

 the Social Sciences, March, 1919. Also by the same author, 

 "Cooperative Marketing of Horticultural Products." 111. Exp. 

 Sta., Circ. 244, 1920. 



