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of the United Farmers Co-operative Company a 

 fairly distinct difference of opinion: in the first 

 place the view which had prevailed during the 

 earlier years of the Company's existence, and 

 assumed in the communication from the Brant 

 Farmers Co-operative Society, and in the second 

 place that towards which the majority of the 

 Board of Directors of the United Farmers Co- 

 operative Company were at this point inclining, 

 but which had not been yet clearly decided upon 

 as a general policy. From time to time during 

 the balance of 1917 this problem received con- 

 sideration, but no definite decision was reached. 

 Meanwhile the stock was being taken up fairly 

 fast. Fifty-three shares were allotted on August 

 10th and one hundred and eighty shares on 

 November 23rd, when Mr. Burnaby, who had 

 been selling stock with success, was present at the 

 the Board meeting. 



On October 5th, in this year Mr. C. W. Gurney 

 resigned as Manager and Mr. L. H. Blatchford 

 was promoted to take his place. 



The next shareholders meeting took place on 

 December 21st in the same year, in accordance 

 with a decision to hold the U.F.O. convention in 

 December instead of later on in the winter. 

 About two hundred shareholders were present, 

 and, as the new prospectus was ready, an 

 enthusiastic campaign of stock selling, led by 



