Fruit Growers" Associations. 
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cipal difference in the management of the associations in the dif¬ 
ferent sections. 
The Boulder County Fruit Growers’ Association at Boulder, 
has been the most successful. Its success is undoubtedly due to an 
efficient manager and a board of directors who have been content 
to let the manager handle the business. 
With a much smaller volume of business and a much more 
perishable product, association management is more difficult than 
in many other localities. Yet the Boulder Association has not 
failed to make a good dividend on the stock every year since its or¬ 
ganization. This is also one of the few which have branched out 
into other lines and have thus been enabled to do business through¬ 
out the year. 
The examples cited are of successful institutions which have 
been in operation a sufficient length of time to thoroughly demon¬ 
strate the practibility of the system. 
It must not be inferred, however, that other sections of the 
State have neglected to take advantage of the opportunities which 
combination in marketing affords. 
Several associations in the Arkansas Valley have become 
prominent, but their management does not differ from that which 
has already been described. 
The following list of fruit and produce and cantaloupe asso¬ 
ciations, which are now doing business in the State, will show what 
an important factor this method of selling horticultural produce 
has become: 
LIST OE ERUIT AND PRODUCE AND CANTALOUPE ASSOCIATIONS NOW 
DOING BUSINESS IN THE STATE. 
Amity Cantaloupe Growers’ Association, Amity, Colo. 
Bent County Melon Growers’ Association, Las Animas, Colo. 
Boulder County Fruit Growers’ Association, Boulder, Colo. 
Capitol Hill Melon Growlers’ Association, Rocky Ford, Colo. 
Delta County Fruit Growers’ Association, Delta, Colo. 
Denver Fruit and Vegetable Association, Denver, Colo. 
Fair Mount Melon Growers’ Association, Swink, Colo. 
Fremont County Fruit Growers’ Association, Canon City, Colo. 
Fruita Fruit and Produce Association. Fruita, Colo. 
Fort Collins Fruit Growers’ Association, Fort Collins, Colo. 
Fowler Melon Growers’ Association, Fowler, Colo. 
Granada Melon Growers’ Association, Granada, Colo. 
Grand Junction Fruit Growers’ Association, Grand Junction, Colo. 
Branches at Clifton, Palisade and Whitewater. 
Grand Valley Fruit & Produce Association, Grand Junction, Colo. 
Independent Fruit Growers’ Association, Grand Junction, Colo. 
Kouns Party Cantaloupe Growers’ Association, Rocky Ford, Colo. 
Lamar Melon Growers’ Association, Lamar, Colo. 
La Junta Melon and Produce Co., La Junta, Colo. 
Longmont Produce Exchange, Longmont, Colo. 
Loveland Fruit Growers’ Association, Loveland, Colo. 
Manzanola Fruit Association, Manzanola, Colo. 
