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FIG CULTURE 



labels ; yet advantages are not only in favor of the 

 Northern distributers repacking it. but the simplic- 

 ity and small cost of preserving in large tins appeal 

 to the average grower, and many will adopt this 

 method of marketing their fruit, The grower is de- 

 pendent upon local conditions when he sells to 

 neighborhood factories, as well as when he manufac- 

 tures finished products himself, and his prosperity 

 and independence is probably just as assured by 

 shipping to large distributers to use their own sugar 

 and glass. When the consumers North and East 

 learn to have fig preserves as a daily diet, the pres- 

 ent demand will become more active, the jobbers 

 and distributers will go to the orchards and local 

 markets to secure their goods, and by that time 

 growers will have organized and learned to co-oper- 

 ate for marketing crops, their independence and 

 prosperity then being assured. 



