MARKETING AND DISTBIBUTION OF WESTEBIST MUSKMELOXS. 5 



pro\ided with proper springs to prevent bruising, the cantaloupes to be properly 

 protected after picking from exposure to the direct rays of the sun. 



The Distributor agi'ees to perform the following: 



' ■ First. To provide a shipping shed through which to load all cantaloupes accepted 

 by the Distributor for shipment, for the use of which the Grower hereby agrees to 

 pay the Distributor a shed fee of not to exceed one (Ic.) cent per crate for every crate 

 accepted and shipped by the Distributor, said shed fee to be deducted from the cash 

 advance hereinafter provided for. 



'"Second. To provide and sell to the Grower cantaloupe seed of first quality at one 

 dollar and twenty -five ($1.25) cents per pound. To furnish to the Grower the fol- 

 lowing supplies at prices named, to wit: Registered paper wraps bearing the ...... 



Brand trade-mai'k, at eighty (80c.) cents per thousand, and in consideration of this 

 price it is hereby agi'eed by the Grower that he will not ship any cantaloupes wrapped 

 in the above-mentioned paper wraps except thi'ough the above-mentioned Distributor; 

 nails at five dollars (15.00) per keg; standard, pony, and jumbo crates at sixteen 

 (16c.) cents each, and flat crates at nine (9c.) cents each, complete, including regis- 

 tered label bearing the Brand, for which no charge is made, and it is under- 

 stood that this label is loaned to the Grower, and the Grower hereby agrees that crates 

 bearing this label shall be used only for such shipments of cantaloupes as are made 

 through the above-mentioned Distributor under this contract. It being expressly 

 understood that the Distributor shall not be liable to the Grower for failure to furnish 

 such crates or other material or supplies if prevented from doing so by strikes or other 

 causes beyond the control of the Distributor. 



"Third. In consideration of the above clause, the Grower hereby irrevocably 

 agi'ees that the terms under which the above suppUes are sold to him will not be vio- 

 lated at any time during the shipping season and that under no circumstances will any 

 porrion of said crop be shipped through any other agency than through the Distributor, 

 and hereby agrees that in the event that he violates said terms, or permits others to 

 \iolate said terms, and ships or permits to be shipped any cantaloupes comprising 

 said crop through any other agency without the written consent of the Distributor, 

 that the prices named herein for supplies and material of every kind are null and 

 void, and that he accepts said material, seed, crates, wraps, nails, etc., at an advanced 

 price of twenty-five per cent above the jDrices mentioned in this contract, and that his 

 entire season's supply is to be charged to him at said advanced prices. The said 

 increased amounts over and above prices mentioned in this contract are to be credited 

 to the "Surj^lus account"- of the Distributor and, at the ending of the season said 

 amounts are to be prorated, in accordance with the actual number of the crates shipped 

 by other growers shipping through the Distributor, and are to be paid on that l^asis to 

 the growers who have not violated their contract and whose interests haA^e been 

 injured by the shipment of said cantaloupes through other agencies by said Grower. 



"Fourth. To advance to the Grower cents per crate for all standard, pony, 



and jumbo crates of cantaloupes and cents per crate for all flat crates of can- 

 taloupes deUvered hy the Grower and accepted by the Distributor for shipment 

 (except as may herein Ije otherwise provided for or agreed upon) less the average cost 

 of crates, paper wraps, and nails, namely, tv/enty (20c.) cents for full-size crates and 

 ten (10c.) cents per crate for flat crates, for all crates, paper wraps, and nails deUvered 

 to the Grower, the Distributor reserving the privilege to withdraw the advance on all 

 varieties of crates excepting Fancy Standard and Fancy Jumbo crates containing 

 forty-five (45) cantaloupes each upon twenty-four (24) hours' notice to the Grower, 

 Buch notice to be given Uj the Grower either in writing or by posting same at the ship- 

 ping shed. In case of an oversupply of cantaloupes, where, in the opinion of tlio 

 Distrihut<jr, the markets of the country are in danger of being overstocked, the (^rowcr 

 agrees upon one day's notice from the Distributor to reduce his deliveries to five 



