3o8 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



This co-operative buying will effect a substantial re- 

 duction in cost of production without sacrificing their indi- 

 viduality as growers. 



It will be better to make use of and strengthen exist- 

 ing agencies rather than to start competitive ones. Admit- 

 ting they have made mistakes, it is only by correcting our 

 mistakes that we advance in anything. 



We may thus become accustomed to co-operation, to 

 pooling our interests, to the methods of organization neces- 

 sary for its success, and when the time seems ripe, for the 

 co-operating in selling our fruit; if we find our purchasing 

 agency is not suited for this purpose, we should then be 

 prepared, Avith the experience gained, to form an organiza- 

 tion that, from the start, will fulfil successfully all the func- 

 tions that we believe such an organized movement capable 

 of, in the co-operative selling; of our New England fruits. 



J. H. Putnam, Chairman. 



