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other amount of units. There are several in New York 

 State. Governor Glynn, a year ago, gave us a very extended 

 I)uff. He said it was the ideal cooperative society, because it 

 was run entirely by the people. I don 't believe we have had 

 any man from the State come and try to organize us in that 

 way. As I said, Mr. Thurston, who' is a commission man 

 himself, came and organized us at first, and we are to act 

 entirely as a local luiit. And I hope we will not get very far 

 out of that territory I mention, because I believe the real 

 power of our Exchange will come by being concentrated and 

 all in one spirit, AVe certainly have to have harmony and 

 spirit if the Exchange is to follow out these things, and, as I 

 told Professor Sears when I came in, I rode down to New 

 York with one of our large growers, and he said to me, "T 

 believe that an Exchange or a cooperative association cannot 

 be run in a locality unless the men are willing to do their 

 best and put their money into it," and I said, ''I don't liks 

 to see it put in that way," but he said, "If they will put their 

 money into it, they will put their faith into it," and that is 

 .iust what we are trying to do there. We simply had to 

 stick together and pay our bills. There are ways and ways 

 of paying bills. 



MR. HITTINGER: How much money do you have to 

 liave in the bank to do business with? 



MR. CLARKE: Well, we have from $1,000 to $8,000, 

 That seems to be enough. And of course we have the re- 

 bates from the commission firms coming in once in about 

 every three months. 



MR. IIITTINGER: You spoke about giving notes. 



]\IR. CLARKE: You see, with all those fruit packages 

 it would amount up to a great many thousand dollars, and 

 Ave couldn't swing it; besides, it would tie up our money so 

 that we couldn't buy anything else, so we are giving notes. 

 This is the first time we have done that, but it is just for this 

 year, because it is a bad year. It isn't a rule of the Associa- 

 tion but just to meet the contingency this y€ar. 



MR. JENKS : I would like to ask the speaker how they 



