58 BULLETIN 1237, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
the effect of said breach upon the California Fruit Growers Exchange and its effi- 
ciency, and the expenses to which the first party will be put and the damage caused 
by outlays incurred and to be incurred by it in providing means for selling and 
marketing the said fruit, are impossible now to estimate or fix, and, therefore, the 
same are estimated and agreed upon as twenty- live cents (25 cents) for each box of 
fruit grown or sold, which sum shall be allowed in any action brought by the first 
party to recover damages for the breach of this agreement by any of the second 
parties, should the first party elect, as it may elect, to bring such action. 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the said corporations have each hereunto caused its 
corporate name and seal to be affixed by its President and Secretary duly authorized 
by resolution of its Board of Directors, duly passed and adopted, and all other parties 
have hereunto signed their individual names and affixed their individual seals. 
Association. 
By 
President 
By 
Secretary 
. owning acres. 
. owning acres. 
FORM OF CONTRACT BETWEEN A DISTRICT EXCHANGE AND LOCAL ASSOCIATION. 
This Agreement, Made and entered into this by and 
between the a corporation duly organized 
and existing under the laws of this State, with its principal office in 
California, the party of the first part, and the other corporations and parties who 
sign this agreement, the parties of the second part. 
Whereas, the system of marketing and handling citrus fruits devised by the Cali- 
fornia Fruit Growers Exchange has been approved by the parties hereto as a satis- 
factory system of cooperative marketing; NOW, in consideration of the foregoing, the 
parties of the second part do hereby severally agree to market all fruit now controlled 
by them or that may herafter come under their control during the term of this agree- 
ment through said first party, it being understood and agreed that the said party of 
the first part has entered into an agreement with the California Fruit Growers 
Exchange for the sale of said fruit in accordance with the general plan adopted In- 
said Exchange, to which plan and agreement reference is hereby made, and the 
same is hereby made a part of this agreement. 
The said party of the first part is hereby authorized to retain from the net proceeds 
rendered to it by the agents of the California Fruit Growers Exchange, or from any 
other sales of fruit under this agreement, such sum of money as their Board of Directors 
may from time to time designate or deem sufficient to cover the expenses incurred in 
making such sales. Should the actual expenses incurred by the said party of the 
first part during the term of this agreement amount to less than the fund so retained, 
then the surplus shall be refunded to the said parties of the second part, according 
to the number of boxes of fruit shipped by each, the Board of Directors adjusting 
the refund upon an equitable basis. Should the actual expense's incurred by the 
said party of the first part during the term of this agreement amount to more than 
the fund so retained, tnen the said parties of the Becond pari agree to pay an assess- 
ment to be levied upon them to make up the amount of the deficiency, said assess- 
ment to be levied upon the number of boxes shipped by each of the said parties 
of the second part, but oranges, lemons and other citrus fruit, as well as auctions 
and agents' sales, may be assessed on a separate basis, and for different amounts. 
Provided that ',, whatever difference, if any, is made by the California Fruit Growers 
Exchange in its charges for marketing oranges. Lemons, and other citrus fruit, respec- 
tively, shall be followed and carried oul in the adjustment of moneys retained by 
the party of the first part from the said parties of the second part. 
The party of the firsl part agrees to use its best efforts to sell and dispose of the 
fruit controlled by the said parties of the second part, hut it is expressly understood 
thai in so doing it acts only as the agent of the said parties of the second part, and 
asBumee no responsibility or financial liability therefor further than it agrees to turn 
