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izing cooperative societies among producers and shippers tbrougli- 

 out the state bj having comj)etent organizers work with the 

 Farmers' Institute Bureau and by making cooperation a promi- 

 nent feature of institute work. 



Resolved, That this conference, composed of delegates from 

 producers' and consumers' organizations, agricultural newspapers 

 and other organizations, recommends that the Mayor, Comp- 

 troller, Board of Estimate and Apportionment, Board of Alder- 

 men and other city authorities be requested to establish adequate 

 wholesale and retail markets to enable producers and consumers 

 of food stuffs to come into direct relations with each other. 



Resolved, That a standing committee of representatives from 

 organizations of producers and consumers be appointed to further 

 encourage cooperative action between consumer and producer to 

 the end that a more direct relation than at present exists, be es- 

 tablished between these two classes which complement and depend 

 upon each other. 



Pursuant to the last resolution, Mr. John J. Dillon, of the 

 Eural New Yorker, was made chairman of the committee which 

 was desigTiated as the State Standing Committee on Cooperation 

 and the chairman was given po^er to appoint on that committee 

 representatives of producers' and consumers' organizations and 

 other representative persons, to assist in carrying forward the 

 work. This State Standing Committee on Cooperation, pursuant 

 to call of chairman Dillon met for conference December 5, 1912, 

 in the rooms of the J^ew York Board of Trade and Transporta- 

 tion. A large and representative delegation assembled and dis- 

 cussed with much spirit the necessity for pushing forward a gen- 

 eral system of marketing food stuffs direct from producers to 

 consumers and presented most conclusive arguments against the 

 present system of handling food stuffs in the City of New York. 

 This conference adopted the following resolutions : 



Resolved, That we oppose the establishment by the City of 

 New York of the proposed large wholesale terminal markets in 

 the ninth ward of New York in place of the old Gansevoort or 

 West Washington Market (called both) at an expenditure of ten 

 million dollars or more of city money, because such a market 

 would perpetuate the present uneconomic and wasteful conditions 

 for food distribution. 



