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good plan, we ought to have it here, goodness knows, and it will solve the 

 thing. We need it, but, you know, our problems are just a little bit dif- 

 ferent from any other shipping association, because we have — well, we 

 are just a little bit peculiar around here." But in spite of that, these 

 farmers come to the meeting, and where they understand it they will 

 sign up. Now, men, that is the trouble, they don't understand. After 

 they understand it, they do vote for it and they do sign it, and you can 

 easily get eighty-five to ninety-five per cent of the men there to sign 

 those things — and that is the way to build an association. 



Of course, there are a lot of things that I can not mention here, that 

 I would like to talk to you about. I will say this, I have written an an- 

 nual report, but I didn't want to read it. I was so tired of it when I got 

 through writing it that I didn't want to read it. I have got a lot of them; 

 you can have one and read it yourself. 



We have got these shipping associations, and they are not doing as 

 well as they should. Not as well as they did in the past. But that is no 

 disgrace — not at all! It is just because we are not organized right. We 

 do need to go out and do this local work. That is the thing I want to 

 leave with you. It is the little shipping association out in the country 

 that needs help, and that is what I am pleading for. We ought to help 

 them, or we will never get anywhere. 



There is one point I want to make clear, too, before I sit down. We 

 have got to meet this local stock buyer in his town on equal terms. And 

 if that little concentration point market has got our Chicago market 

 beat, at certain times of the year, that market is going to be available. 

 And then I think that as we go on down the line incorporating that we 

 are going to continue to find these concentration points, and I think that 

 we should operate them ourselves and that will be easily done after we 

 get the business into the hands of the shipping associations. 



President Sykes : Now some announcements and then we will 

 adjourn until 1 :30. The first announcement is a committee on 

 resolutions of the Corn Belt Meat Producers' Association. The 

 Co-operative Shippers will announce their committee on resolu- 

 tions after we re-convene after lunch. They are not prepared to 

 announce them at this time. W. P. Dawson, chairman, of Chero- 

 kee county; R. M. Gunn, Blackhawk; J. A. White, Iowa; D. W. 

 Crowfoot, Marshall; T. J. Robinson, Franklin; L. V. Carter, Har- 

 din; T. D. Rittgers, Dallas; Charles Cessna, Poweshiek; H. S. 

 Martin, Jasper; Harry Fox, Sac; J. S. Wheeler, Boone county. 

 This is the committee on resolutions for the Corn Belt Meat Pro- 

 ducers' Association. 



Mr. Cotterell : I would make a motion that the two commit- 

 tees get together and compare their resolutions before reporting, 

 otherwise there might be a conflict of resolutions between the 

 two. 



President Sykes : I think that is a good suggestion, and with- 

 out putting it to the house, I will pass on that and ask the two 



