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ing that they had no local organization for loading cars, and 

 perhaps blaming the directors for it, would almost never 

 themselves get together for that purpose, or take any step 

 wluitever to do so. In short, the growers made it evident that 

 they could be depended upon for nothing except to find fault 

 with their own agents, and yet make no effort to change them. 

 In the end the directors got tired, and the forwarding-houses, 

 by aid of the growers, having so multi[)lied that the union 

 was but one agency among many, and no hope remaining of 

 accomplishing the original intent of the union, the directors 

 grew weary of managing a business for which they were not 

 paid, which yielded them no profit, but only abuse, and 

 decided to stop. 



