1240 New York State Agricultural Society 



Montclair Cooperative Stores 



American Cooperative Stores 



Housewives' League 



Citizens' Food Committee 



Cooperative League of New York 



Flatbush Taxpayers' Association 



Tribune Farmer 



Farmers' Institute Bureau 



Rural New Yorker 



American Agriculturist 



New Y'ork Central and Hudson River R. R. Farm Bureau 



Agricultural Education Association of Southern New York 



Long Island School of Agriculture 



New York State College of Agriculture 



Columbia University, Department of Agriculture 



New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor 



City Club of the City of New York. 



In addition to the above organizations so represented by dele- 

 gates, the following persons, among others, were in attendance at 

 the conference : Honorable Kaymond A. Pearson, William Chnreh 

 Osborn, Henry F. Atherton, William Connolly, Mrs, W, Y. Velie, 

 Mrs. Gross. 



The conference was organized by choosing Mv. George W. 

 Sisson, Jr., the president of this society, as chairman ; and Mr. 

 Horace V. Bruce as secretary. The conference then proceeded 

 to the discussion of the subject in hand and numerous speakers 

 participated, all agreeing that some system should be devised 

 whereby producers and consumers should be organized into co- 

 operative societies for the purpose of securing more direct busi- 

 ness relations between producers and consumers and to save the 

 enormous cost and numerous profits of handling food stuffs in the 

 City of New York under the present chaotic, wasteful, and un- 

 businesslike conditions. A committee of ten was on motion ap- 

 pointed by the chair to consider and report on some general 

 plan to promote the organization of cooperative societies and to 

 lead to the establishment of cooperative producers' and consumers' 

 markets. The following day, April 20, this committee reported 

 the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted: 



Resolved, That the conference of delegates from producers' 

 and consumers' organizations on the subject of cooperation, held 

 in New York City on April 19-20, 1912, reciuests the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture of the State of New York to assist in organ- 



