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risk of getting a lower or a higher price in the spring or early summer. 

 If every one will be agreed on that plan, to work one with another in a 

 solid body, there is no organization of agriculturists or fruit producers, 

 as one speaker has said, that can possibly be a failure. All that is 

 necessary is unity, to present a solid front, as one man, and let every 

 one stick up for the Association as against all or any one who attempts 

 to take a whack at it. Until that shall be done, it can never be made 

 a complete success. Let one car go into a market where there are 

 twenty or thirty cars, and a lower price on that one car will demoralize 

 the price on all the others, every time. If a car goes East from an out- 

 sider or any other party and is quoted one eighth below, every packer 

 in this vicinity will get a telegram from one of his brokers: "Can get 

 them cheaper, one eighth under the price. If you don't wire quick we 

 will buy from the other fellow." When you elect men to conduct your 

 business you should have confidence in them; if you have not, ask 

 them to step down and out and put in those in whom you do have con- 

 fidence. It is no use to bicker after the die is cast and the men are 

 chosen. Bury all differences until the next meeting, and then go at it 

 hammer and tongs and get your men in, or lose. 



MR. BERWICK. Mr. Chairman, there was one little omission in 

 the proceedings this afternoon. Some resolutions relative to the parcels 

 post passed unanimously. I should like to make a motion that they 

 be transmitted to our Senators and Congressmen of the Pacific Coast 

 by our worthy Secretary. 



Adopted. 



At this time a recess was taken until Thursday, at 9:30 o'clock a. .m. 



