Eddy, Arthur Jerome: The new competition: an examination of the conditions underlying the radical change that is taking place in the commercial and industrial world ; the change from a competitive to a cooperative basis (New York [u.a.], 1912)

3i8 THE NEW COMPETITION
societies, controls the marketing' of 15,000,000 pounds of
walnuts, which is probably eighty per cent, of thfc walnuts
grown in the United States.”
In Virginia the farmers of two counties have an ex-
change that handled in 1910 more than 1,000,000 barrels of
Irish potatoes and 800,000 barrels of sweet potatoes in ad-
dition to thousands of crates of berries and other products.
The apple growers of Virginia are organized and the
peach growers of Georgia are struggling with their prob-
lem.
“A successful fruit exchange would know almost ex-
actly how much fruit could be shipped from day to day,
how many cars would be needed, what the principal rates
would be to the different markets, how many cars of
peaches the people in the different cities would need from
day to day, zvhat outside competition would have to be
met, and practically what prices should be received.”
That same organization could purchase crates and ma-
terials for members and make a saving.
The citrus fruit producers of Florida are trying to fol-
low California methods.
“It is to the interest of all the people of Florida, and
indeed of all consumers of good fruit, to help in every pos-
sible way to reduce the cost of fruit by better marketing
methods, to carry better fruit to the consumers, and at
the same time to make the growers more prosperous by
giving them a larger share of zvhat the consumer pays.”
There are several hundred organizations among the cot-
ton growers.
“There should be several thousand local cooperative
unions tt> control local' gins, warehouses, presses, and oil
mills.”
“The time has passed for petty jealousies and indi-
vidual bartering. Business must be done in a business-like
way.”