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is money in it, if you take care of your harvest and do it 

 up in the right shape. 



Mr. J. J. Irwin. I wonder if the public appreciate what 

 our secretary has done for this State ? I certainly hope they 

 will. He has started a movement which has gone around the 

 world. The people out west come back here and look at the 

 progress in the State of Massachusetts with amazement. 

 Who is responsible for it ? The secretary of our Board. I 

 hope that the people in this State Mall begin to think and to 

 appreciate what he has done during the past several years. 



Mrs. John F. Adams (West Tisbury). I was very much 

 interested in the paper tlys morning. There is no doubt 

 but what the consumer will be perfectly agreeable to every- 

 thing done in a wholesale manner, but supposing in our 

 town there are 5 milkmen, and some day they decide to 

 remove the chips from their shoulders and unite. They go 

 into town ; they decide which one shall carry the milk ; ho 

 goes to a certain consumer, and the consumer, not liking 

 him personally, refuses to buy from him. In a town about 

 8 miles from us the grocery people have combined. They 

 are selling just as good goods just as cheap as ever. Here 

 is a family, who spends a great deal of money for groceries. 

 They refuse to trade with this combination, declining to be 

 told that they " must buy from a certain man." I personally 

 know such a family, and they say they have no fault to 

 find except this very reason. Now wouldn't it be a good 

 idea to take some of this money we are going to save by co- 

 operation and start a kindergarten to train the public to 

 appreciate some things ? We have this all planned out, and 

 we decide just what wc are going to do. Will the public 

 appreciate it ? 



Mr. H. M. Howard (West Newton). ^Ir. Chairman, I 

 was very much interested in Dr. Twitchell's paper, especially 

 in the comparison of prices, — the price paid the farmer in 

 a wholesale district and the price paid the retailer in a con- 

 sumer's district. There is altogether too great a difference 

 between the amount received by the farmer and the amount 

 paid by the consumer, but you must remember that the 

 retailer takes an immense chance, and a good many times 



