Marketing Fruit 315 



"With increased production more care must be given 

 to the quality and packing. Every car of inferior fruit 

 carelessly packed and placed on the market will tend to 

 decrease the value of the fancy stock, and to such an 

 extent that growers who are anxious to get something out 

 of inferior fruit will be the losers considerably more than 

 the profits realized from such sales." 



. District Organizations 



Now that local associations have become established 

 institutions, there yet remains to be organized a combina- 

 tion of associations, as has been accomplished by the 

 California citrus fruit-growers. State associations would 

 perhaps not meet the wants of the inter-mountain region 

 so well as district organizations, since the fruit-growing 

 localities are widely separated and their conditions are 

 diverse. It is true that the managers now work together 

 to some extent, but they all agree that a much closer union 

 would be desirable. 



Not only would our fruit become better known and 

 better prices result by such union, but economy in many 

 lines would be effected. If one man could have super- 

 vision of the sales of all associations, in a given section, 

 the last trace of local competition would be eliminated. 

 The railroads, as well as the large dealers, could be dealt 

 with to much better advantage by one man representing 

 a group of associations than by a number of men repre- 

 senting the divided interests of several. In the buying 

 of supplies one man could not only do the work economi- 

 cally, but he would be able to secure much better rates. 

 The same line of argument would hold for all phases of 

 association management. 



