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The convention was so much pleased with the outline 

 proposed by the Riverside grower that he was requested to 

 formulate it in full for general distribution, and a further 

 adjournment of a week was taken, to meet at Los Angeles. 

 At the Los Angeles meeting, which was the largest yet held, it 

 was resolved to proceed to organization, and a committee, 

 headed by the author of the plan, was appointed to promote 

 it. At a subsequent meeting, a month later, many local meet- 

 ings in the citrus-growing centers having been held in the 

 meantime, and growers generally, through the press and other- 

 wise, having been made familiar with the plan, it was finally 

 agreed upon substantially as originally proposed. Proper pro- 

 vision was also made for the expenses of organization. 



The plan was simple and business like. It provided for: — 

 1. Local neighborhood Associations, owning the necessary 

 packing facilities, and for that purpose incorporated. To these 

 local packing-houses the grower delivered his oranges in bulk, 

 just as he had been accustomed to deliver them to the packing- 

 houses of the buyers or commission men, and they were there 

 graded and boxed, with those of others, each grower getting a 

 receipt showing the amount and the grade of fruit delivered. 

 This ended the duty of the grower; from that time on his fruit 

 was mingled with that of other growers, and marketed by his 

 Association. 



. 2. District "Exchanges," composed of representatives from 

 each Association in the district. These Exchaiiges received 

 the orders and apportioned them among the local Associations 

 in proportion to their total crops, previously ascertained, by 

 each Association, by actual canvass. As orders were received 

 and apportioned, each Association directed its members to pick 

 and deliver their fruit. The intent was to ship only such fruit 

 as was actually sold before picking. The district Exchange 

 attended to the shipments, collected the returns, and distributed 

 to the local Associations, which paid them to the owners of the 

 fruit. Thus the local societies attended to the collection and 

 packing, and the district Exchanges to the shipment and col- 

 lection. The district Exchanges were not incorporated. The 

 districts were made large enough to supply business sufficient 



