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lo The: CoIvOrado Experime:nt Station. 
Manzknola Orchard Association, Manzanola, Colo. • . ■ 
Newdale Melon Growers’ Association, Swink, Colo. 
North Fork Fruit Growers’ Association, Paonia, Colo. 
Palisade Fruit Growers’ Association, Palisade, Colo. 
Peach Growers’ Association, Palisade, Colo. 
Plateau and Debeque Fruit, Honey and Produce Ass’n, Debeque, Colo. 
Rifle Fruit and Produce Association, Rifle, Colo. 
Roaring Fork Potato Growers’ Association, Carbondale, Colo. 
Rocky Ford Melon Growers’ Association, Rocky Ford, Colo. 
San Juan Fruit and Produce Growers’ Association, Durango, Colo¬ 
rado, and Farmington: New Mexico. 
Surface Creek Fruit Growers’ Association, Austin, Colo. 
'Woods Melon Growers’ Association, Las Animas, Colo. 
A state: organization. 
Now that local associations have become established institu¬ 
tions, there yet remains to be organized a combination of associa¬ 
tions. A state association would perhaps not meet onr wants so 
well as dbtrict organizations, since the fruit growing localities are 
widely separated and their conditions so diverse. It is true that 
the managers now work together to^ some extent, particularly on 
the AVestern Slope, but they all recognize that a much closer union 
would be desirable. 
Not only w’ould our fruit become better known and better 
prices result, but economy along many lines would be effected. If 
one man could have supervision of the sales of all associations, in 
a given section, the last trace of local competition would be done 
away with. The railroads, as well as the large dealers, could be 
dealt with to much better advantage by one man representing a 
group of associations than by a number of men representing tlie 
divided interest of several. Then, in the buying of supplies, one man 
could not only do the work more economically, but he would be 
able to get much better rates for the same reasons. The same line 
of argument would hold good for all phases of association man¬ 
agement. 
The time is not yet ripe, perhaps, for such an organization, 
but it is fast approaching. It is safe to say that the complete con¬ 
trol of the market situation, to which the fruit growers of Colorado 
are entitled, will only be realized when such a combination is 
effected. 
the: grand junction fruit growers' association. 
The following report of the Grand Junction Association will 
assist in giving an insight into this form of successful co-operation. 
This Association has been chosen for the purpose of illustration, 
not because it is the most successful, but for, the reason that it is 
the oldest and is doing the largest business of any in the State. 
This Association was started in 1891, when a few growers com¬ 
bined and appointed one of their number salesman of their fruit for 
