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prehensive and trustworthy system of gathering crop 
estimates and daily market reports at a cost of many 
thousand dollars, to adequately serve the grower; it thus 
puts the grower in an advantageous position in his rela- 
tionship to the trade. 
2. It distributes the growers’ fruits, by intelligent or- 
ganization, to all of the markets so as to neither over- 
supply nor under-supply any particular market, and 
provides an agency large enough to seek and find new 
markets as well as develop old ones. 
3. It markets the growers’ fruit in an extensive but 
conservative and economical manner and without ruin- 
ous competition. 
4. It furnishes the grower with personal represent- 
atives in every important market center in America and 
Europe, and in fact, the world, whose first consideration 
is the growers’ interest, who examine the fruit in transit, 
repair damages, and where necessary, protect the grower 
against improper demands for allowances, etc. 
5. It secures a uniform and dependable grade and 
pack of the fruit throughout every district—a thing of 
great value to the trade and, therefore, to the grower 
seeking the trade—and it is thereby enabled to back the 
brand of each district with a guarantee that will bring 
a higher price for the fruit than for other fruit outside 
of such a brand. 
6. It properly and scientifically advertises the grower’s 
fruit and returns the full value of that advertising to 
the grower. 
7. It gives the grower the power, backed by the ex- 
elusive service of skilled legal, traffic and claim depart- 
