472 The Principles of Fruit-growing. 
lation and the consuming capacity of each, the 
transportation rates thereto, and all incidental mat- 
ters which are likely to influence the market from 
day to day. Having such information before it, the 
association, if it has the shipping of the larger part 
of the fruit of any region, can place such quantity 
in each city or town as ean be consumed, and 
thereby prevent the glutting of the markets. All 
this can be done only when the system of organi- 
zation is exceedingly thorough and when the growers 
are willing to codperate; but it would likely be a 
mistake for any organization to expect to enlist in 
such an enterprise those fruit-growers who are able 
to find special and personal markets for themselves, 
as indicated in the next paragraph. Such growers 
are ordinarily so few, however, that they do not 
influence the general market conditions. 
Much has been said during the past few years 
about the shipping of fruit in pools or unions. 
When the market is very far removed from the 
producer, so that transportation rates are high, 
an organization of interests is often necessary. In 
districts which are so far from markets as the 
Pacific coast, it is necessary that a man have either 
a large quantity of fruit to ship or that he ship 
in conjunetion with his neighbors; or, that he sell 
his fruit outright to buyers. In districts whieh are 
close to market, it is rarely advantageous to the 
growers of the very finest fruits to ship through 
pools or unions. The difficulty is that the best fruit 
is sold for about the same price that the poor fruit 
