CHAPTER XI 
SPECIAL FRUIT ORGANIZATIONS 
Fruit Distributors.—During the past five or six years 
a new type of fruit organizations has appeared which has 
to do exclusively with the selling or distributing of the 
fruit. Some of these take the title of exchange but 
most of them are known as distributing associations. 
These kind of organizations have been the outgrowth 
of definite efforts to simplify the methods of distribution. 
The old plan where each exchange attempted to do its 
own selling was found to be cumbersome and too ex- 
pensive. As the number of exchanges increased it was 
found that they were competing with each other in 
selling the fruit. This called for higher-priced sales- 
men and various additional expenses. Later, many local 
associations combined and attempted to sell the output 
through a central office. This worked well for a while 
and, at present, the bulk of the fruit is being handled in 
this way. Now, when there is scattered through the 
Central and Western states over 300 fruit organizations, 
this method of distributing was again getting cumber- 
some. Thus special distributing organizations have re- 
sulted. 
California Fruit Distributors.—This was the first ef- 
fort to combine a number of exchanges for the exclusive 
selling of the fruit. Delegates from the various organiza- 
tions formed a separate corporation. The selling forces 
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