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and we have got to have a perfect system. The system is 

 worked out practically. Now I can't give the details to you, 

 because it is too long and I must be brief. However I want 

 you to get some idea and if you will kind of follow the thing 

 along we will try to elucidate it to you in private or in public or 

 any way. We have got to start, as I say, doing business in some 

 particular place. For instance, if you buy potatoes, you have 

 got to have a potato house. That means a responsibility. Now 

 potato men are the men who really are in this, who happen to 

 be sent by the Pomona Granges of the State to form the organ- 

 ization. We however don't propose to turn this over entirely 

 into a potato corporation, because we see the apple men are 

 meeting the same proposition and the same problems that we 

 meet. Consequently I came up here very readily — although I 

 find it is a good deal of a cross to me and if I live through this 

 I don't think I will ever get in another such a scrape — to say to 

 you that we would like to have you take hold of this proposition 

 and handle it from your standpoint, that is, the apple side of it. 

 I don't know anything about that. Of course I raise fifty or 

 sixty bushels of apples and they don't turn me, well, twenty-five 

 cents I suppose would be a good price for what my apples turn 

 me. Sometimes I sell a few bushels, sometimes give them tc 

 my hogs. That is about the way my apple crop goes. If there 

 was a company I could send them to and knew I would get fair 

 usage, why I would do it at once and take what I got and put it 

 in my pocket and call it a present. But as I say, we were potato 

 growers, most of us up in Aroostook county — this man, that man 

 and the other man, when we got together we found we were 

 potato growers instead of apple growers. We decided that in 

 order to start business, and we don't expect a great deal of capi- 

 tal at first, perhaps not more than a thousand or two dollars, 

 that it was necessary for us to start doing business in some place 

 where we could do a business that would pay these men that 

 were engaged in that business the same as if it were a private 

 corporation, that is, as though it were not intended to be a gen- 

 eral corporation. Consequently we are going to try to begin 

 to do business up in Aroostook county, and the president of the 

 company at the present time — it is only a temporary organiza- 

 tion and there is no probability that he will be re-elected — is 



