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times late, and for either condition the management should be prepared 

 with full information, or often the best opportunities will be lost. The 

 same policy is necessary in drying associations, in order that the manage- 

 ment may be fully prepared with plant for handling the deliveries with- 

 out loss. This action is a source of encouragement to the officers of the 

 associations, through the confidence thus manifested. 



STATE FRUIT EXCHANGE. 



By B. F. Walton, of Yuba City. 



One year ago the State Horticultural Convention at Los Angeles 

 adopted the following resolution: 



Resolved, That a committee of seven (7) be appointed to consider the matter of 

 cooperation in fruit marketing, with instructions to report- to this convention on Thurs- 

 day, for its consideration. 



On Thursday the following report was read and, on motion, adopted: 



To the Fruit Growers' Convention: 



Your committee appointed to consider the question of cooperative fruit marketing 

 have had the subject under consideration, and respectfully report as follows: 



We are satisfied that the conditions which have already brought disaster upon some 

 branches of the fruit industry of California will, if unchecked, speedily bring similar 

 disaster upon all other branches. 



We believe that the only remedy is that the growers shall themselves assume the 

 marketing of their own product, and that the time has now come to apply that remedy. 



We heartily approve and indorse the methods of cooperation already adopted by the 

 citrus growers of Southern California, and the dried fruit producers of Santa Clara 

 County, which we find substantially alike in principle, differing only in detail to meet 

 the different requirements of the dried and fresh fruit trades. We regard it of the 

 utmost importance that the great cooperative movement now in progress should be so 

 directed that all interests involved should work together, not only in harmony, but in 

 actual consultation with each other. 



To this end we strongly approve the movement originated by the State Horticultural 

 Society for the organization of a State Fruit Exchange, and urge all individual growers 

 and all cooperative societies to unite in its support, trusting to the combined judgment 

 of all interests to direct its movements to the general good. We especially urge the 

 importance of a large attendance from all parts of the State at the meeting called by 

 the State Horticultural Society for the 29th of December next for the purpose of settling 

 and indorsing the plans for the Exchange, awakening enthusiasm in its support, and 

 selecting the men to carry it on for the first year. 



I. H. Thomas. Tulare County, 



Chairman. 

 T. H. B. Chamblin, Riverside County, 

 D. T. Fowler, Fresno County, 

 Edward Berwick, Monterey County, 

 N. W. Blanchard, Ventura County, 

 R. C. Kells, Sutter County, 

 H. A. Brainard, Santa Clara County, 

 Edward F. Adams, Santa Cruz County, 



Committee. 



Los Angeles, November 22, 1893 



A temporary organization of the California Fruit Exchange had just 

 been effected, and the first State convention of fruit growers to which 

 the subject could be referred expressed its opinion thereon in the above 

 positive language, thus practically indorsing the plans as then outlined, 

 and giving to the enterprise the formal indorsement of this body. 



It is proper to present to this convention a brief outline of what has 

 been accomplished by the organization thus created and indorsed. 



Up to the State convention of December 28th last, which had been 



