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and hesitate to leave the association, the agents advance a certain 
amount per box on the fruit, the balance to be paid when the fruit 
is sold. There are many instances in which the growers never 
hear from the agent again; in others, where they receive a bill for 
the freight, and still others where money has been advanced for 
the fruit, they get a bill for a refund on the payment advanced. 
This they are often compelled to pay. 
The strangest thing of all is that often the very men who are 
defrauded in this way are “taken in” again the next year. It is easy 
to see that under these conditions a co-operative association can¬ 
not be successful. 
The consignment system has not proved very satisfactory. In 
any carload of fruit not strictly graded, there will be boxes which 
are below standard. The commission men, finding this, refuse to 
handle the consignment, except at a lower grade. Oftentimes con¬ 
signments are reported in bad condition when they are as good as 
represented. The owners must either allow the fruit to be marked 
down or turn it over to someone else. This is not very easy to do 
when they are several hundred miles away. Sales on an f. o. b. 
Modern Method of Transportation. The Apple Crop is Handled by Intcrurban 
Electric- System which Connects with the Railroad. 
