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bership is seventy-five, and the average pack about 8,000 barrels 
of apples. 
The Norfolk Fruit Growers' Association, with head office at 
Simcoe, Ontario, resembles in form the Oshawa Society, but the 
stock company owning the warehouse consists of only a few 
members of the association. How long this arrangement will re- 
main satisfactory is a question. At present it is one of the most 
successful of the associations ; it has a membership of 188, and 
an annual output of about 18,000 barrels of apples. 
There are a number of smalfer societies, as well as large ones, 
organized either on the Forest Fruit Growers' Association plan 
or as stock companies, having an annual output of from 1,000 
barrels upward. In some cases these societies have been handi- 
capped by a lack of knowledge of the business. 
GENERAL FRUIT ASSOCIATIONS. 
The Burlington Fruit Growers' Association is the oldest society 
in Ontario. It is remarkable for the simplicity of its organiza- 
tion, as it has no constitution or by-laws, no warehouse, and no 
capital in any form. There is only a verbal agreement among 
the members. Each grower packs his own fruit, and it is shipped 
under his own name and on its individual merits. There is a 
manager who orders cars for shipments, directs growers when 
to deliver fruit, pays over to each grower the price that his ship- 
ment has brought, and attends to other details. For this he is 
paid a small commission. The officers of the society are a presi- 
dent and a board of directors. The continued activity of the 
association is good evidence of its usefulness. 
The St. Catharines Cold Storage Co. is a good example of a 
concern organized as a joint stock company, yet working steadily 
in the direction of true cooperation. This society was organized 
in 1896, and has a mechanical cold-storage plant valued at $13,000 
and a working capital of $2,000. A part of the capital was se- 
cured by mortgage on the property. The debt has been entirely 
paid off by the addition of new members who took stock, and by 
applying the dividends on the stock to this purpose. Working 
capital has also been provided. The society is now endeavoring 
to effect an equal division of shares, with each member holding 
$50 worth of stock. To do this it is transferring stock of the 
old members holding more than this amount to new members 
and to old members not holding so much. Thus the society will 
be conducted eventually on a one-man-one-vote basis. The com- 
pany ships to all parts of Ontario and Quebec and to many parts 
of western Canada, the shipments consisting of apples, pears, 
peaches, plums, cherries, grapes, and an increasing quantity of 
other fruits and vegetables. The sales amount to about $75,000 
annually. The society handles supplies for its members and 
