254 Cooperation in Agriculture 



in the community will eventually force the local merchant 

 to sell the fertilizer at actual cost. 



A FRUIT-GROWERS' SUPPLY COMPANY 



A better understanding of the scope of a producers' 

 supply company may be obtained by reference to the 

 articles of incorporation of a company in California that 

 furnishes fruit-growers' supplies. 



ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION 



OP THE 



WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, the majority of whom are residents 

 of the State of California, do associate ourselves for the purpose 

 of creating a corporation under and according to the laws of the 

 State of California. To that end we do declare 



First : That the name of said corporation is, and shall be 



Second : That the purpose for which it is formed is to manu- 

 facture, buy, sell, and deal in supplies of every Idnd or nature 

 necessary or incidental to the packing, shipping, and marketing 

 of fruits and fruit products, and all other agricultural products ; 



To buy, sell, lease, and otherwise acquire and dispose of prop- 

 erty, real, personal, or mixed, in any state or territory of the 

 United States or in any foreign country, and to mortgage or 

 hypothecate the same, and to execute deeds of trust, or other 

 instruments, as security for the payment of any indebtedness 

 or obligations issued by this company ; 



To purchase, lease, or otherwise acquire and dispose of timber 

 lands, timber rights, water and water rights and mill sites in any 

 state or territory of the United States, or in any foreign country ; 



To buy, sell, mill, and deal in timber and timber products ; 



