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For instance, one of the questions yesterday afternoon 

 was in regard to cold storage, and I am wondering how many 

 men and women there are connected with this society, if a 

 cold storage plant was built by your association or by certain 

 class of your patrons, would patronize it if you found the cost 

 of putting" apples in tliis cold storage was three cents more a 

 barrel than }ou could get it done somewhere else for, not 

 necessarily more than you are paying now, but you want to 

 recollect that in the cold storage plant, the chances Jire that 

 the people who now own a cold storage plant will reduce 

 their price and you have to reduce your price to compete with 

 them. If you are now pa^'ing 40 cents a barrel and you can't 

 possibly run your cold storage plants for less than 3S cents 

 a barrel, and the other plant dropped down to 30 cents. 1 

 wonder how many members, under co-operation, who are in- 

 terested in this society, will continue to pay 35 cents when 

 you can get it done for 30 cents, even knowing, as you do, 

 when they have wiped out competition, they would put the 

 price back? There are many things of that kind that would 

 have to be tried before that could be approved. I heard Air. 

 Collingwood three weeks ago in Rhode Island make a state" 

 ment, that he supposed it was different with people in New 

 Jersey than it was in Rhode Island or any other state. He 

 thought it was true in New Jersey, that if they had seven 

 men come together for co-operative purposes, either in cold 

 storage or anything else, and the chairman or the foreman 

 should say : "The first thing to be done is to all lay down 

 your wallets, you all lay down your wallets here and one of 

 the seven will take charge of those and be responsible for 

 them and make returns as fast as he can," he said he thought 

 they wouldn't do it. .And then he said if the chairman should 

 say: ''Well, gentlemen, you have got to do one of two things, 

 you have either got to do that or else you have got to be 

 hung." he said he was rather of the opinion yon would find 

 seven men hanging before they would do it. (Laughter.) 



Now. the vice-president from Connecticut to the New 

 England Fruit show said last week in Boston, that you were 



