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sales were more than the year before, which shows that we were 

 gaining on the sale-at-home plan. We also increased our mem- 

 bership to 132, which tended to prove that we had made another 

 step. Up to this time we had lost but two members ; through their 

 failure to live up to our by-laws it became necessary to suspend 

 them. 



The fourth year of our work started with a membership of 140, 

 and was increased to 150. 



ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND PROSPECTS 



Just after our last yearly meeting we organized a branch office 

 at Athens, Greene County, X. V., which is working out very 



FIG. 193. UNLOADING FEED AT ONE LOADING STATION OF THE HUDSON RIVER 



FRUIT EXCHANGE 



satisfactorily. This year our manager sold all of the Bartlett 

 pears in the organization, making at least $3,000 in the deal for 

 the members. When currants were not worth the picking, the 

 exchange made arrangements to press out and preserve the juice 

 from about 100 tons of this fruit. This is something altogether 

 new, and it looks now as if we would dispose of this product at a 



