TWENTIETH ANNUAL MEETING. 215 



Discussion. 



A ]\Iember ; You have thrown out a good many sugi^es- 

 tions in regard to vegetables ; I would like to ask you what 

 you are going to do with the waste vegetables? The question 

 is with the ordinary market man, he has got to keep the prices 

 up and make a few bunches of radishes pay for the whole lot. 

 The moment the ordinary market man will not take anv more 

 than the ordinary customer will pay for, you are up against 

 it; what are you going to do with the surplus? 



Mr. Hall: That same question came up in New York 

 last winter when lettuce was selling for about 10 cents a 

 bushel. About 25 of the largest greenhouse men about Boston 

 and also members of the Merchants' Association, thought we 

 could form a closer association, and the question came up as 

 to what we should do. We found that every grower was 

 there and had responded to the invitation to attend this 

 meeting, and they were much interested in it. One gentle- 

 man said : 'T believe the thing to do is to throw away all over 

 No. 2 lettuce, make everything into No. 1." He said there 

 would be still a fair price for our lettuce crop if we would 

 throw away a certain per cent. They all agreed that would 

 be a great thing to do. Another gentleman got up and said : 

 'T have another idea ; it seems to me it would be a proper 

 thing for us to form a co-operative selling organization here 

 in town, tliat would send a man to New York and Chicago 

 and work up a demand for our lettuce; there must be a lot of 

 places where they would buy this lettuce if they could get it 

 at the proper price ; we could ship some of it out during the 

 glut at these low prices, and we could get it on the market 

 where they are using no lettuce now, and we can clean up our 

 market in that way." 



There were a number of suggestions along those lines, 

 and finally it was thought best to postpone the meeting for two 

 weeks. In two weeks it was called, and at that time the price 

 had gone up to 25 cents a bushel. So instead of having 25 

 at our meeting, we had only 10 or 13. W'e thought we 



