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state to bring producers and consumers into direct business rela- 

 tions, and to eliminate the expensive, wasteful and unbusiness- 

 like methods of marketing through middlemen. 



5. Laws should be enacted favorable to the organization and 

 operation of cooperative societies to secure a system of more 

 liquid loans, and protect and conserve the interests of producers. 



6. The state should give liberal financial aid to this society to 

 enable it to make a statewide, vigorous and etfective campaign, 

 through the public press and with paid experts, to organize co- 

 operative societies throughout the state. 



7. We recommend that this society in cooperation with the Ag- 

 ricultural Department take action at once to secure the coopera- 

 tion of the state departments and societies of all the seaboard 

 states from Maine to Florida to bring about a system of coopera- 

 tive marketing direct from producers to consumers. 



8. We recommend that the state enact laws and adopt measures, 

 as soon as practicable, to provide adequate and appropriate receiv- 

 ing terminals for food stuffs along the l^orth and East Rivers in 

 the Boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx with cold 

 and sreneral storage connected with railroad and steamboat trans- 

 portation; and also to provide sufficient and appropriate sites 

 and buildings for retail department food stores located so as to be 

 reasonably accessible to the homes of consumers. 



9. We recommend the organization of a wholesale and retail 

 cooperative corporation with capital stock of $5,000,000 more 

 or less, to be subscribed and paid in by producers and consumers, 

 which shall be the operating company, or mutual agency, to re- 

 ceive, sell and distribute food stuff of all kinds with dividends 

 limited to 6 per cent, on its capital stock and the balance of profits 

 distributed to the cooperators. 



10. We recommend the establishment by law of a state food 

 commission to perfect and carry out plans for cooperative markets 

 in all the larger cities and towns of the state. 



The state does, and should do, that which is for the general 

 public welfare, and which cannot be done effectively by private 

 capital and enterprise. The state provides schools for our edu- 

 cation. Is feeding the people less important than educating 

 them ? The state builds canals, armories, homes for the indigent. 



