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ingly low. In many cases, we all 
know it would be cheaper to let the 
crop stay in the field to make fertil¬ 
izer than to ship it. 
Dr. Inman—If you people would 
only be in earnest about forming this 
organization, we would not have as 
much to contend with as the Cali¬ 
fornians did. Prof. Powell, in two 
months, would organize the state of 
Florida into as solid an organization 
as that of California, if you would only 
co-operate with him. There is no 
question about the commission men buck¬ 
ing hard and trying all their methods and 
schemes, but they will be very easily 
overcome if you listen to the advice 
of men of ability and experience like 
those in California. They have driven 
the commission men out of busi¬ 
ness out there. There would be no 
trouble to get these men of ability; 
the trouble is to determine definitely 
and positively what we want. I don’t 
want you or ask you to take my in¬ 
vestigation of the matter. Send some 
men out there to see for themselves 
and make you a report. The fruit ex¬ 
change is composed of such men as 
Dr. Richardson, Mr. Boardman, Mr. 
Skinner, Mr. Hart and all you other 
gentlemen whose names I do not 
know. 
Mr. Sampson—Don't you think we 
need it particularly this year? What 
price do you expect the buyers are go¬ 
ing to offer for fruit if there is not 
some better methods of packing? I 
think one great need is to standardize 
the packing. 
Dr. Inman—So do I. I don’t think 
it would take very long to organize if 
we can strike while the iron is hot. 
We'ought to be able to know every 
year that we are going to have a good 
fruit market and that we are going to 
get our money for the crop with the 
least possible expense. 
AFTERNOON SESSION. 
Professor Rolfs—We had this morn¬ 
ing a little talk about packing and 
shipping oranges, and Dr. Inman and 
some others cited the methods that 
were employed in California in pre¬ 
paring the fruit for market and ship¬ 
ping the oranges. It was suggested 
that you, Mr. Tenny, be requested to 
give us a little talk about the organ¬ 
ization out there. 
Mr. Tenny—I will not talk long 
now, since the society asked me to 
give a paper this evening" on a some¬ 
what similar subject and as this will 
require nearly an hour I do not wish 
to weary you this afternoon. The 
Doctor has possibly given you an im¬ 
pression that the organization, that has 
been known up to a couple of years 
ago as the So. California Fruit Grow¬ 
ers’ Exchange, now known as the 
California Fruit Growers’ Exchange 
is a pretty large affair. This year they 
are shipping approximately sixty per 
cent, of all the oranges and. lemons 
from Southern California. This great 
organization did not come into being 
at a single stroke. It has been a 
growth. Its beginnings were back 
about 1895. The organization grew 
out of the fact that it was realized 
that the citrus growers were not in¬ 
dependent of each other, but depend¬ 
ent, especially as to marketing of their 
fruit, with regard both to a systematic 
distribution of the fruit over the ship- 
