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Show COAST GROWERS ILLJpiZE SAN BRANCISfO. Dec 4. The first steps in organizing vegetable anil produce growers m California into co-, operative marketing associations are j under way under the Guidance of the, state market director, it was announced today by by Pred N. Blgeley, secretary . of the state market commtslson, who said five of these a-ss-oclatlons vere be-1 Ins formed These organizations, with two new fruit growers associations and one of I poultrymen will mean an addltlo" of' from S5.OUO.000 to $7,000,000 to the : California products marketed In Ibis1 manner and from 1500 to 1J000 new1 growers In the co-operatlys ranks, ac- COrdlng to Bigelow. They are the Imperial Valley Vegetable Vege-table and .Melon Growers association, the Cnachella Valley Onion Growers' assclatlon, the Lakeside Fruit and Veg-i e table Growers association. In the same county, the Merced Vegetable Grow-' en association, the Fruit Growers as-! sociatlon of Riverside county, the Cherry Growers of California and thej Poultry Producers of Imperial Valley, i Two of these were formed as direct result of disastrous marketing conditions condi-tions In their line this ear, Bigelowi said, the Imperial Valley Growers. Bending only 370O cars of lettuce outi of a 6,000 car crop to market, turning turn-ing the rest under the soli because ofi low wholesale prices, although lettuce was retailing In tho east at L'Oc to 30el a head. Coecholla onions likewise suf-1 fared, according to- Bigelow. only 700 cars out of 1500 being sent to market.! the growei-s even losing money on I their marketed crop, despite tho re-tall re-tall price of three pounds of onions for 25c. |