Thursday Evening, December 4th, 8 o'Clock. 

 Council Chamber, City Hall. 



Honorary Chairman, Charles S. Calwell, Esquire, President, Corn 

 i Exchange National Bank, Philadelphia. 



Mrs. Smith : We have a long programme before us and a very interest- 

 ing one. Mr. Benjamin did not use his lantern this afternoon. He is going 

 to run over briefly some of the slides that he has brought with him, which 

 I am sure will prove very instructive. Then we are going to have the milk 

 question and I hope we will have a very interesting meeting and that 

 everybody will say anything that is in their minds. Being a farmer myself, 

 I have a great weakness for the Egg Association at Cornell, because I 

 cannot raise more than about fifty chickens. I would like somebody to 

 , come in my neighborhood and show me how to handle the situation, the 

 ■ output; get it to the markets, and all that sort of thing. 



Mr. Benjamin: This afternoon I talked on the subject of "Marketing 

 Eggs" and dwelt to quite an extent with the co-operative association which 

 was started at the Cornell University among the farmers. This evening I 

 have a few slides dealing with this co-operative organization on general 

 marketing principles. If there are any questions I shall be glad to have you 

 bring them up within the limited time that I have. The organization which 

 we have at Ithaca, while it is purely local, we are organizing it with the 

 idea of its being adaptable to other parts of the state. The organization is 

 simply an organization among producers and is designed for the inter- 

 change of ideas, and deals with conditions where we have small farms, with 

 very small flocks, in most cases 35 to 50 hens on a farm. We have some 

 farmers who specialize with 75 to 1,000 or 2,000 hens, but what we have to 

 do is to help the small farmers with 25 or 50 hens, help them in getting the 

 eggs together and getting them to the consumers either through the whole- 

 sale dealers or direct to the consumer. We have various dealers: the 

 country huckster, the country store and the small city jobber. Most of 

 those are superfluous and should not be needed. 



[Mr. Benjamin at this point used his lantern slides in a practical 

 demonstration of the work of the association at Cornell.] 



D. H. Steffans, Baltimore: I would like to ask a question. This 

 afternoon you said that, as compared with six independent dealers in a 

 certain field competing for the eggs of the farmers, there was a tendency 

 to co-operate because of the lack of efficiency. Is that correct? 



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