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Baum: 



Miller: 



Mi Her j didn't want to get into. 



Baum: Let's see. The Associated Farmers was organized in 

 1935. They were all farmers, I think, not just the 

 apricot growers. 



Miller: Yes. Of course, this I think was a branch of the 



Associated Farmers insofar as Brentwood was concerned; 

 the apricot farmers were involved, no other farmers 

 were involved. 



Most of the apricot farmers were members of the Asso- 

 ciated Farmers. 



That's right, the larger ones were, yes, the larger 

 ones were. They had small farmers on that committee, 

 too, so that the small farmer was taken care of. 



Baum: And you chose the Small farmers? 



Miller: That's right. 



Baum: And who chose — 



Miller: The two of them together then chose the other five 



merchants. So I had a cross section, the small farmer 

 and the big farmer and the merchants. This was, of 

 course, laughed at to begin with, and I had been 

 laughed at many times. Many people tell me I do 



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