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others. It handles fruit for non-members, and sells supplies to 
them, paying over one-half as much profit per dollar as it returns 
to members. The supply branch is a very important part of the 
business of the society, as it handles all kinds of fruit packages, 
spray pumps, and other machinery, ladders, etc., seeds, fertilizers, 
and spraying chemicals. It has now become the temporary whole- 
saler for the federation of fruit associations. In 1908 the sup- 
plies amounted to about $27,000, and in 1909 to $40,000. The 
society charges a little less than regular market prices and then 
rebates to members and to non-members buying through the 
association and selling their fruit the same way, the percentage 
of rebate depending upon the amount of business done with the 
society. 
The Grimsby Cooperative Association is a society of seven 
members who own nearly 500 acres of land, largely planted with 
fruit. The stock is evenly divided among the members. The 
management of such a society is very simple compared with that 
of the St. Catharines Co. 
SMALL FRUIT ASSOCIATIONS. 
The Donnville Fruit Growers' Association is perhaps one of 
the best examples of the small-fruit associations. There are about 
thirty-five members. Fruit is shipped to local markets, and each 
member grades his own and ships it under his name. The so- 
ciety is incorporated without share capital. Its chief activity is 
in buying fruit packages, aiding in securing good markets for 
fruit, and disseminating useful knowledge by arranging meet- 
ings, etc. Societies of this kind are nearly all local branches of 
the Ontario Fruit Growers' Association, which is not a trading 
society, but an organization having for its object the advance- 
ment of fruit-growing interests generally. A number of these 
local units are slowly growing into cooperative societies for buy- 
ing and selling purposes. 
MANAGEMENT AND EXPENSES OF FRUIT ASSOCIATIONS. 
All the associations have practically the same arrangements for 
government of the societies, viz., a president, a vice president, a 
secretary, who is usually manager, a treasurer, and a board of 
directors varying in membership according to the size of the 
society, and the territory covered. Expenses are met by a straight 
charge per package. Although directors usually work gratis, 
some societies allow $1 to $1.50 and mileage for each meeting 
held. The president usually works without pay, but in some 
cases is allowed $20 to $70 per year. One association, with an 
output of 1,200 to 1,500 barrels per year, pays its manager $2 
per day for superintending the packing and the loading of the 
