COOPERATIVE CITRUS-FRUIT MARKETING AGENCY. 
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the exchange system. The responsibilty for maintaining the mem- 
bership of old associations and organizing new associations has for- 
merly rested mainly upon the district-exchange manager. The 
recently organized Growers Service Bureau of the central exchange 
will cooperate with the district-exchange managers and the association 
managers in the future, and will assist in membership work. 
At least one district exchange has made a concerted effort to 
improve the field and packing-house handling of the fruit of its mem- 
bers, and for that purpose employed an inspector to work in cooper- 
ation with the field department of the exchange. All district 
exchanges cooperate with the field department in its various activities, 
and concern themselves with the general questions relating to the 
improvement of the quality and grade of the fruit shipped from their 
respective districts. 
Organization of the California Fruit Growers Exchange. 
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FEDERATED 
DISTRICTS 
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20 EXCHANGE DIRECTORS 
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Fig. 6. — The California Fruit Growers Exchanges is composed of 20 district exchanges. The representa- 
tives of the district exchanges make up the board of directors of the exchange. 
ORGANIZATION OF THE EXCHANGE. 
The California Fruit Growers' Exchange is a nonstock corporation, 
organized under the laws of the State of California. (See fig. 6.) 
The representatives of the 20 district exchanges are the members of 
the California Fruit Growers Exchange. 17 They elect themselves 
directors of the exchange, and also have been elected the directors 
of the Fruit Growers Supply Co., which will be discussed later. 
The operations of the exchange are financed by assessments of a 
specified sum per box on shipments made through the organization. 
As has been previously mentioned, this sum is retained by the dis- 
17 See provision in contract between the exchange and the district exchanges tinder section entitled 
"Board of Representatives.'' Appendix, p. 62, 
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