. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. IQiS BETTER FRUIT Page 21 ber of a fruit pool is protected against severe personal loss by the guarantee that all members of the pool will bear a proportional share of the loss for the general protection and welfare of the community. The system of pooling in most common use includes the enter- ing of all fruit on one variety into a common pool, making each grower or unit in that pool safe from severe loss by the distribution of such loss to all members of the pool. Each member then receives a fair return for all fruit of this variety when comi)ared to the price r
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. IQiS BETTER FRUIT Page 21 ber of a fruit pool is protected against severe personal loss by the guarantee that all members of the pool will bear a proportional share of the loss for the general protection and welfare of the community. The system of pooling in most common use includes the enter- ing of all fruit on one variety into a common pool, making each grower or unit in that pool safe from severe loss by the distribution of such loss to all members of the pool. Each member then receives a fair return for all fruit of this variety when comi)ared to the price received by all other members of the pool. However, many still con- tinue to return to Extra Fancy the money received for Extra Fancies and to each of the other grades the same. Any loss which is received by any grade is borne alone, with the result that frequently one of the grades makes much poorer returns than its actual comparative value justifies. This is the exact parallel of the non-pool system of shipping for growers. If Jones ships a car of apples and it meets with an accident, becomes frozen or scalded, strikes the market at a bad time or meets with any one of a dozen or more conditions which might cause the fruit to sell below its just value, with the non-pool system Jones stands the whole loss. With the non-pooling of grades the same condition exists. It is a com- mon occurrence for cars to get in wrong, and this frequently causes the sale of Extra Fancy at prices lower than the C grade. It is wholly possible that the closing of a variety pool may show the returns per box for C grade larger than the returns for Extra Fancy; this in face of the recognized margin of valuation between the two grades. For the interest and stability of the community and industry each grade of a variety should be entered into a pool to guarantee that a just value should be returned to each grade in proportion to the value returns to the other grades. With this idea in mind, the Bureau of M
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