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other class in the community. Such is the great- 

 est work that the future can hold. 



The year following the organization meeting 

 was one of some discouragement, but on the 

 whole brought satisfactory results. The first 

 executive meeting of the new association was 

 held on April 13th, 1914, at the Carls-Rite 

 Hotel. Matters of general policy were considered 

 and a plan was outlined by which it was hoped 

 that the merits of the new undertaking would 

 be brought before the people. The treasury, 

 however, was almost bare, and had it not been 

 for generous aid given to the new movement by 

 the farmers' organizations of the West, who had 

 loaned to it the sum of $1,000 to be spent as 

 seemed wisest, and by Mr. S. A. Beck of 

 Cayuga, who gave a generous amount to aid 

 the organization, the outlook would have been 

 still more discouraging. As it was, during the 

 first two years, and indeed to the present time to 

 a very large degree, the success of the movement 

 depended upon voluntary and unselfish effort 

 on the part of those who believed in it. This 

 handful of men went here and there throughout 

 the Province, generally in the neighborhood of 

 their own homes, attending club meetings, 

 calling meetings for the purpose of organization, 

 and everywhere preaching the need and advan- 

 tages of a province- wide farmers' association. 



