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ments, to secure justice and fair dealing in all instances 
from buyers, railroads, ete. 
8. It removes from the methods and practices of the 
fruit business the objectionable and obstructive features, 
the strength and influence of 7,000 united growers being 
vastly more effective than that of 7,000 individual dis- 
interested units. 
9. It gives the grower control of his own product from 
orchard to market, thus enabling him to secure the hand- 
ling of his fruit by the legitimate trade at an equitable 
cost. 
10. It can, by reason of its all-district representation, 
supply any quantity or any variety of any fruit to meet 
the most exacting and preemptory demands of the trade 
and thus avail the grower of the benefits to be derived 
from such special service!. 
North American Fruit Exchange.—This is one of the 
1atest developments in the fruit-distributing business 
and represents a condition different from either of the 
other two distributing organizations mentioned. It is 
much more comprehensive in its nature, taking in a wider 
territory and handling a much wider range of products. 
Instead of being located in the producing centers, its 
headquarters is located in New York, the chief center 
of markets. It is really an exchange of exchanges. Or- 
ganized fruit-producing societies and large shippers con- 
trolling a sufficient value of business can become mem- 
bers. This is a stock corporation, but only sufficient stock 
was issued to cover the actual operating expenses. It was 
organized in 1911, under the laws of the state of New 
Jersey, with a capital stock of $100,000. The privilege of 
1 From First Annual Report, North Pacific Fruit Distributors, 1913. 
