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tance. Brother Holston has not suggested how they are to be 

 paid, when they would meet with the creamery men, or any- 

 thing of that kind. It seems to me there should be something 

 a little more businesslike ; that they should be assured that their 

 expenses will be paid. 



Mr. Pattee : The plan of organization that we hope to per- 

 fect in New England includes this idea, that every territory 

 shipping to some common point shall have a common market; 

 all producers shipping to Hood, for instance, live in Vermont, 

 New Hampshire and Massachusetts. All shippers to Turner 

 Centre, in Vermont, New Hampshire and the Province of 

 Quebec, it seems should include their interests with the people 

 living in Maine who are shipping to the same concern. The 

 organization provides that for those men shipping to the same 

 dairy there shall be a market committee representing those sec- 

 tions; then the committee dealing with the Turner Centre is 

 associated with a similar committee dealing with Hood, and 

 another dealing with Whiting, and another in Springfield, and 

 in Hartford, and so on. I think we have a workable plan, but 

 I cannot go into details here. I only suggest that before any 

 committee from the Dairymen's Association wait upon the 

 Turner Centre and publish your announcement that a price is 

 satisfactory, you in some way come in touch with other dealers 

 so they may know that relatively they are getting a fair price 

 from the concern with which they are dealing ; that there 

 should be a relation between these different markets ; that some 

 central Association should watch, and that you, in order that 

 you may know you are getting a square deal from your con- 

 tractor, must understand what other farmers are getting from 

 their contractors. 



Mr. Harris : If I understand the situation correctly, Mr. 

 Pattee comes here representing the N. E. Producers' League. 

 We are gathered here under the auspices of the Dairymen's 

 Association of Maine, both as producers and creamery men. 

 Now, it must "be a mutual thing if we look at it from his point 

 of view, if the creamery man — call him the middle man, if 

 you wish — and the consumer get together. It seems to me this 

 committee we have voted should be a committee to investigate 

 and to get men together who contribute to Hood, Whiting, the 



