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Show Orcajnreatfff he Middleman. After many years of experimenting, one portion of the rural community at least bar learned how to dictate their own terma to buyers. These are the fruit growers of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. They have formed the Fruit Growers' association, with a headquarters in each suitable central locality. lo-cality. The growers in western New York and Pennsylvania have now a board of trade, with branches in tho fruit districts. dis-tricts. . They watch the markets and send the fruit to points where the demand is most brink and prices best. They are ia constant communication by telegraph, and from time to time fix the price at which they will suffer the fruit to go. All stani together and tie buyer must pay the price-of go without the commodity. com-modity. At the same time proper precaution is taken against putting inferior fruit upon the market, or giving dishonest weight and measure. The grower's came is stamped plainly upon the basket. One fruit growers' union, the New Jersey Fruit Exchange, hae succeeded in bringing down railroad freight charges and also the price of fruit baskets. The Hammonton Fruit Growers' Union works more than any of the others on the co-operative plan. It collects col-lects the money due the grower and applies ap-plies the law when a consignment of fruit is nq. satisfactorily accounted for. All farmers and vegetable gardeners, as well as the fruit growers, could have such unions and stand by each other like the sticks in that old bundle of the fable. The new historical society composed of women ia called the "Daughters of the American Revolution." Mrs. Harrison Har-rison has accepted its presidency. The society will build a monument to Mary Washington, mother of George. Mr. Sherman, ef New York, introduced into congress some time since a bill making it the duty of government to mark in a suitable manner the historic sites of the Revolution. The authoritative stamp thus being placed upon them, the Daughters Daugh-ters of the Revolution will undertake tke task of erecting monuments upon the sites. The permanent annual anniversary anni-versary of the society will be Oct. 11, the day on which Columbus discovered America. |