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ber's crop may mature early and he may desire to ship to 

 the holiday market, while another man may have no fruit 

 ready to pick. If the market should be especially good for 

 holiday fruit it would not be fair to wait till the end of 

 the season, strike an average for all the fruit sold during 

 the year and pay each member according to the relation 

 his total number of pounds of fruit has to the total weight 

 shipped by the association. Those members who did not 

 have their fruit ready for the early market would have no 

 right to share the advantage of their more painstaking or 

 more fortunate fellows, and members who did not ship 

 to this market should not be called upon to bear a loss if 

 one has been incurred. 



Even in the later pools contributions cannot be exactly 

 equal. After a member has contributed, say, 10 per cent, 

 of his crop to the holiday pool and another has contributed 

 nothing, there is no common base on which to proceed for 

 the rest of the season. If, beginning in January, each 

 should contribute the same percentage at the call of the 

 directors the first would be out of fruit when the second 

 still had ID per cent, to ship. Then there are often special 

 reasons why a member is allowed to deliver more or less 

 than the general percentage to a pool. Suppose that the 

 directors believe that the best interests of the association 

 require ttte shipment of 20 per cent, of the crop during 

 March. It is immaterial to them where this fruit comes 

 from, so if certain members want to deliver more than that 

 percentage and others less there is no reason against accom- 

 modating both groups. But if all wanted to ship more or 

 all wanted to ship less, then the directors would exercise 

 their authority and require each member to deliver his due 

 proportion of fruit. 



Pools have a general tendency to conform to the monthly 

 schedule, that is, there is the January pool and the February 



