2o6 COOPERATIVE MARKETING 



that the carriers should not charge more than $7.50 a car 

 for refrigeration on such shipments. 



Thus the exchange system controls a Supply Company 

 to provide packing house and orchard materials for its 

 members, an Indemnity Compact to insure its associations' 

 packing houses against fire, a By-Products Company to 

 relieve the market of unattractive or unwanted fruit, and 

 it is by far the most important member of the Citrus Pro- 

 tective League which is vigilantly alert to see that the citrus 

 growers' interests are maintained and where possible ex- 

 tended. In short, cooperative activity characterizes almost 

 every branch of the citrus business except the actual pro- 

 duction of fruit, and even there cooperative picking crews, 

 cooperative irrigation systems, cooperative fumigating out- 

 fits and cooperative frost protection associations are com- 

 mon. The growers have amply demonstrated that by 

 working together, instead of against one another, a highly 

 specialized industry, thousands of miles from its principal 

 markets, with enormous fixed charges, not only can exist 

 but can prosper. 



