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equip and fit tlu'in for the business. I do not know just what couhl 

 be done to bring together a large number of the wool growers of the 

 State. It seems in this day and age that men will go farther to eat 

 an indigcJtible banquet than anything else. In ovn- .Jersey Cattle Club 

 the largest meetings were held wlien we had a Ijanquet at a dollar 

 a head. We sent out invitations to men to attend a banquet at the 

 Grand Hotel, and asked them to sid)seribe for as many tickets as they 

 wished at a dollar apiece. We have had as many as eighty or ninety 

 members come to that baniiuet. We transacted our business in the 

 assembly room of the hotel l)efore we went to the bau(]uet. Nothing 

 of that kind has ever been tried with the Wool Growers, but I believe 

 if we could arrange for a business meeting at 4 o'clock and have the 

 banquet at 7 or 8 we would have a good meeting. We can get such a 

 dinner served for a dollar a person at the English or the (Jrand hotels. 

 They have rooms suitable for banquets. I think we ouglit to try to 

 get as many of the younger breeders and the new men in tlc^ ])usiness 

 to that meeting as po.ssil)le. If we could send a circular letter from 

 our Secretaiy's office to each meml)er of the Association, and in it 

 enclose a postal card for them to send back with as many names of 

 sheep breeders as they know in their counties that they could rccominend 

 as members. In this way we could probably secure elgiu or nine hun- 

 dred names. Then the Secretary could have letters writtt n to each 

 of these men asking them to l)ecome members and explaining to them 

 the objects of the Association. Then when the right time of the year 

 comes around we could try this plan of a dinner. I should like to see 

 this Association grow. 



On motion the President was authorized to appoint a delegate from 

 the Indiana Wool Growers Association to attend the National Wool (Grow- 

 ers Association; also a delegate to the National I>ive Stock Association. 



The meeting was then adjourned sine die. 



