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The '''Haywards Fruit Growers Association''' was an early growers cooperative banding together to sell consistent fruit. The cooperative was founded in December 1889<ref>Joseph Baker, Editor,, Farming Fruit Growing, Stock Raising, Etc. In [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/history/alameda/alameda-chapter-11.txt Past and Present of Alameda County California] Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 1914</ref>. Milo Knox organized the group in 1889, sending the first crops to Chicago<ref>Haywards: Notes from a Pretty Town A Mile From the Station: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18910208.2.97# Feburary 8, 1891 San Francisco Call].</ref>. The cooperative soon pulled in members from San Leandro, San Lorenzo, Niles, Sunol, and Danville as well. In 1901, the cooperative shipped forty cars of dried fruit<ref>A Little Dry History: [http://www.tricityvoice.com/articlefiledisplay.php?issue=2010-01-27&file=Dried++Fruit.txt January 27, 2010 Tri-City Voice].</ref>.

The group's creation might have been prompted by the recent collapse of the Livermore Farmer's Union. That co-op had sold primarily through two Sacramento wholesalers<ref>Joseph Baker, Editor,, Farming Fruit Growing, Stock Raising, Etc. In [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/history/alameda/alameda-chapter-11.txt Past and Present of Alameda County California] Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 1914</ref>.

The co-op' was no longer in existence by 1905<ref>California Secretarty of State, [http://books.google.com/books?id=h-81AQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA72&ots=_haqBapXIM&dq=%22haywards%20fruit%20growers%20association%22&pg=PA72#v=onepage&q=%22haywards%20fruit%20growers%20association%22&f=false Certified Copy of Compiled Statement of Domestic Corporations Whose Charters Have Been Forfeited and Foreign Corporations Whose Right to Do Business in this State Has Been Forfeited, December 14, 1905, for Failure to Pay Their Corporation License Tax, Under an Act of the Legislature, Approved March 20, 1905], 1905.</ref>.

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	The '''Haywards Fruit Growers Association''' was an early growers cooperative banding together to sell consistent fruit. The cooperative was founded in December 1889<ref>Joseph Baker, Editor,, Farming Fruit Growing, Stock Raising, Etc. In [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/history/alameda/alameda-chapter-11.txt Past and Present of Alameda County California] Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 1914</ref>. Milo Knox organized the group in 1889, sending the first crops to Chicago<ref>Haywards: Notes from a Pretty Town A Mile From the Station: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18910208.2.97# Feburary 8, 1891 San Francisco Call].</ref>. The cooperative soon pulled in members from San Leandro, San Lorenzo, Niles, Sunol, and Danville as well. In 1901, the cooperative shipped forty cars of dried fruit<ref>A Little Dry History: [http://www.tricityvoice.com/articlefiledisplay.php?issue=2010-01-27&file=Dried++Fruit.txt January 27, 2010 Tri-City Voice].</ref>.		The '''Haywards Fruit Growers Association''' was an early growers cooperative banding together to sell consistent fruit. The cooperative was founded in December 1889<ref>Joseph Baker, Editor,, Farming Fruit Growing, Stock Raising, Etc. In [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/history/alameda/alameda-chapter-11.txt Past and Present of Alameda County California] Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 1914</ref>. Milo Knox organized the group in 1889, sending the first crops to Chicago<ref>Haywards: Notes from a Pretty Town A Mile From the Station: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18910208.2.97# Feburary 8, 1891 San Francisco Call].</ref>. The cooperative soon pulled in members from San Leandro, San Lorenzo, Niles, Sunol, and Danville as well. In 1901, the cooperative shipped forty cars of dried fruit<ref>A Little Dry History: [http://www.tricityvoice.com/articlefiledisplay.php?issue=2010-01-27&file=Dried++Fruit.txt January 27, 2010 Tri-City Voice].</ref>.