TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL FRUIT-GROWERS' CONVENTION. 71 



While we are getting more money, the fellow that is hard up and 

 wants ready money will go and make his deal. I am simply talking 

 about the success so far as we are concerned in the association. We 

 have only been operating for three years on the present plan, and that 

 is, selling our goods delivered. I say this: that we are taking care of 

 the people that are with us better than they were ever taken care of 

 before, and getting more money for their oranges than was ever gotten 

 before in the history of the orange business. We might possibly by 

 some measures increase our holdings, but do not think we could do it 

 like Mr. Kearney has done in the raisin business. We do not want to 

 give any one control of our business. 



Prof. CHILDS. Those of us who have been trying to organize the 

 dried fruit industry have feared this. We have thought that the 

 raisin people were right — that in order to control the prices of cured 

 prunes we must have at least a combination of seventy-five per cent of 

 the producers; because in this valley we have several associations and 

 they have tried to control the prices of prunes, but the outsiders have 

 controlled the prices. 



Printing Mr. Kearney's Address. 



Mr. NAFTZGER. It seems to me that Mr. Kearney's address is so 

 valuable in its suggestions that it ought to have a permanent place in 

 print. That address has a value which I think would be a prominent 

 and effective weapon to aid local organization. 



On motion, a committee was appointed, consisting of Judge Lewis, 

 Mr. Naftzger, and Mr. Kearney, to report in the afternoon on the cost of 

 printing said address in pamphlet form, for distribution before the 

 adjournment of the convention. 



Recess was then taken until 2:30 o'clock p. m. of this day. 



