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It will be better to make use of and strengthen existing 

 agencies rather then to start competitive ones. Admitting 

 they have made mistakes, it is only by correcting our mis- 

 takes 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 fruits, if we find our purchas- 

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

 be prepared, with the experience gained, to form an organ- 

 ization, that, from the start, will fulfill successfully all the 

 functions, that, we believe such an organized movement ca- 

 pable of, in the co-operative selling of our New England 

 fruits. 



J. H. PUTNAM, 

 C. A. SMITH, 

 G. S. KNAPP, 



Committee 



(Applause). 



Mr. Ellsworth. You have heard the report on coop- 

 eration. 



Mr. Wilder. I move that we accept that report, but 

 that we do not discharge the committee, that they be con- 

 tinued in force to carry on so far as possible their recom- 

 mendations. 



Mr. Ellsworth. Very good. Mr. Wilder moves that 

 you accept the report but continue in force the committee 

 to study up that problem. Those in favor say "Aye;" con- 

 trary minded "No." It is a unanimous vote. 



The next business is the election of officers, a report by 

 the chairman, Mr. Wheeler, of the nominating committee. 



Mr. Wheeler. Mr. Hittenger has declined to serve as 

 chairman, and the committee appointed me. As chairman of 

 the nominaoing committee I beg to submit the following 

 list of nominalions: (See Page 2). 



Mr. Wheeler. I notice that we have no delegates from 

 Plymouth. Barnstable and Bristol Counties. The Secre- 

 tary's books show that we have no members in any of those 

 counties and therefore can't have directors on the board un- 

 less we have membership in those counties. It seems rather 

 a pity that we haven't membership in those counties so that 

 the whole state can be represented in this Fruit Growers' 

 Association. 



