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now and again, (this feature I deem very advantageous 

 to the fruit growers,) their temporary headquarters at 

 Wyoming, with such incidentals as printing, etc ; 

 certainly an economical corporation. 



This year the Exchange sold, at Wyoming, fifty 

 thousand baskets of peaches of the three hundred 

 thousand baskets brought to that station. The fruit 

 sold through the Exchange averaged 45 cents more 

 per basket, than that sold outside. 



The Fruit Exchange is a success, now, and will be 

 more of a success when there comes a large crop and 

 more fruit than buyers. This year, (1885,) there were 

 more buyers than fruit. When the large crop comes, the 

 Exchange will cause all to put up their fruit honestly, 

 according to the brand, and this will cause the buyer to 

 prefer the Exchange to buying from outsiders, who have 

 no guarantee to their fruit by the Exchange inspectors, 

 and this inspection must be a cardinal point in Exchange- 

 law, if it is to go on prospering. A large station is 

 an advantage, and Wyoming has this advantage. Her 

 growers ought to sell their fruit there, and not ship it, 

 and thus draw buyers ; for there is more profit in the 

 Exchange than in shipping. I am satisfied that had I 

 had my own fruit at Wyoming station this year, and 

 sold through the Exchange, instead of shipping, 

 as I did, to Philadelphia, Newark, N. J., and New York, 



