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We have now before us several propositions, and, of course, 

 the marketing of milk for the 1st of April will be here before 

 we know it. The League has before it a great opportunity, as 

 by our charter we are allowed to do most anything. We can do 

 collective buying; that means that we can purchase for all of 

 our members their feed, their harvesting implements and any- 

 thing that may be of use and which the farmer wants. I be- 

 lieve that it is for us to establish sooner or later our own bank- 

 ing facilities. There is spent in New York City, I believe, an 

 amount estimated at nearly $80,000,000 for milk annually. 

 Now, our organization has grown so that we now cover the 

 Buffalo market, we are covering the Rochester market, we are 

 creeping over on to your Boston market, and I believe that is a 

 thing that the League should take up as soon as possible, and 

 co-operate with the New England Milk Producers Association. 



Following Mr. Cooper's talk, E. E. Conant, manager of the 

 Maine Fruit Growers' Exchange, spoke on the "Oxford Bears' 

 Fruit Growers' Association." 



