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is producing, and never mind the extra barrels, etc. It is not 

 worth my while to continue this subject, everyone of you under- 

 stands it and it is time that you ditl something or other to get a 

 little more money out of what you are i>roducing. 



Mr. van Alstyne: I do not want any gentleman here to think 

 I am opposed to the matter of cooperation. Mr. Dillon knows 

 better than that because we have discussed that thing many times. 

 That is not my thought at all, I want to say this to you, that in 

 instructing my institute workers at Geneva last N'ovember, one 

 of the things I suggested to them was that I wanted them in every 

 place where possible to push the matter of local cooperation by 

 every means in their power. They are doing it. I said this 

 expenditure was unnecessary. We are asking just at this time 

 for $25,000 to help the farm bureau movement. That farm 

 bureau movement has come to stay. .Someone said in this 

 hall yesterday that we are going wild on this agricultural 

 help extension movement. That is true. Let us look at the 

 matter, is there a better way that we can organize the farmers 

 than by the farm bureau if it is properly managed ? In Niagara 

 County they are organizing. Last year they had a crop of peaches 

 far beyond their ability to handle or to get cars for. Why? 

 Because they did not know what they were going to have. The 

 agents of the railroads asked, " How many peaches are you going 

 to have ? " and provided rolling stock for that amoimt. At one 

 little station they shipped more cars the first week than were 

 shipped the entire packing season before. Peaches were selling 

 when I was there in September for eighteen cents a basket and 

 here in Albany for $1.00 to $1.35 a basket. ISTow if that farm 

 bureau had been organized then as it is now, would it not have 

 been a way and the practical thing — you would not need prep- 

 aration to do it — that man could have gone out and taken a 

 census of the peach crop of iNTiagara County and when he had 

 gathered these facts, as he could easily have done, could then have 

 gone to the railroad people and they would have provided cars. 

 That same man could have come right here to Albany and 

 marketed carloads of peaches without the help of any organiza- 

 tion and without any preparation. Now, these farm bureaus 

 are coming. Let us get somewhere and do some one thing and do 



