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a])plcs are credited to bim for Just what they will make. lie 

 doesu't do the sorting, however. It is written in the Scrip- 

 tures that no man can sort his own fruit. The sorters are 

 hired to do the work, and don't know one man's product from 

 another's. I know of one man who did something to his 

 strawberries that couldn't be detected by the sorters, that 

 gave him an unfair advantage. He was expelled from the 

 association, could not get into the other local association, 

 and was obliged to sell his farm and leave that district. If 

 these people on the South Shore had an association and 

 elected their own seller, it could be perpetuated, and they 

 would not be subject to their present buyers going out of 

 business, or anything of that kind. 



Mr. B. W. Potter. I would like to ask whether there 

 is more than one association in the Hood River valley, and 

 whether there are not some individual growers ? 



Dean Davenport. There is only one exchange in that 

 valley, though there might of course be two. The individual 

 in these localities almost always belongs to the association, 

 except where he is big enough to be an association himself. I 

 know of one such case at Riverside, — a firm of three or four 

 men, who have developed such a large business that they can 

 get along by themselves. 



Mr. JoHx BuRSLEY. As you know. Cape Cod is one of the 

 largest cranberry sections in the country. A company was 

 organized to sell the crop direct from the growers to the peo- 

 ple, and the man at the head of it was one of the smartest 

 fruit salesmen in Chicago. Cranberries must be assorted 

 near the place of growth, and they are packed and inspected 

 by an inspector, who receives a small sum per barrel, and each 

 barrel is marked with its grade. This took the crop away 

 from the commission dealers of Boston, !New York and Phila- 

 delphia, and placed it right at the distributing points, largely 

 in carload lots. This was very successfully done last year and 

 the year before. All the growers got the same price for the 

 same grade of berry. So successful did this scheme prove, 

 that the cranberry king, who is packing 50,000 barrels, has 

 organized a smaller sales company, and these two companies 

 have frozen out most of the commission houses. We have a 



