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partments of the warehouse. They are next put through 

 grading machmes, and packed for shipment. Fifty-pound 

 wooden boxes are the standard package of the Exchange. 

 The nuts are attractively labelled with their brand names. 

 Some varieties, such as Schley, which demand a premium on 

 the market, and certain inferior sorts are, however, sold sepa- 

 rately. Such varieties as the Stuart, VanDeman, Pabst, Frot- 

 scher and Delmas, are assorted and blended together. The 

 first grade of these are sold under the Apex brand, and the 

 second as the Junior brand. 



The cost of operating the Exchange varies from year to 

 year. However, when the expenses of its services are pro- 

 rated among its members, it is from four to five cents on the 

 pound. 



NATIONAL PECAN GROWERS' EXCHANGE 

 Albany, Georgia 



Marketing Agreement 



This Agreement Made and entered in this day of 



1923, by and between the National Pecan 



Growers' Exchange, a corporation organized and existing under the 

 laws of the State of Georgia with its principal oflSce and place of 

 business in the city of Albany. Georgia, hereinafter calle<:l the 



"Exchange," party of the first part ; and 



of 



hereinafter called "Member/' party of the second part 



Whereas, the Exchange is a non-profit making co-operative corpora- 

 tion organized for the purpose of handling and selling pecan nuts 

 and pecan products and whose principal purpose is to facilitate the 

 marketing, to standardize the grades and to create and maintain a 

 stable and profitable market for pecan nuts and pecan nut products 

 and to eliminate waste and the duplication of exi^ense in marketing 

 same; and it is essential to the accomplishment of said purpose that 

 it be assured of a definite source of supply both as to volume of 



