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sooner accomplish their job of acquiring, reorganizing, 

 and extending the Turner Center facihties or are dis- 

 charged. They, as trustees, are entirely a separate and 

 distinct organization from the New England Milk Pro- 

 ducers' Association. . . . They will simply use the trust 

 funds to purchase stock in the Turner Center Association, 

 a Maine corporation. To raise the amount required, each 

 Turner Center patron will be asked to pay in the form 

 of cash or negotiable note ^10 per cow. Subscriptions 

 to the trust fund may be received from others. Each 

 patron will also pledge 5 per cent of his monthly milk 

 check to the trust funds. For each $10 contributed to 

 the fund, a share will be issued bearing 6 per cent interest. 

 The amount so raised will be used to purchase stock 

 in the Turner Center Association. The trustees will thus 

 gradually acquire the majority stock interest and be able 

 to reorganize that concern on a cooperative basis. The 

 5 per cent contributed from milk checks will, in five years, 

 enable the trustees to acquire all the Turner Center stock 

 and pay back the first contribution of $10 per cow. This 

 being done, it appears that each producer will have con- 

 tributed to the trust fund a percentage of his business 

 and will own in that fund exactly according to his patron- 

 age. The fund being invested in Turner Center stock, the 

 producers will through trustees own that stock upon 

 the basis of business done through the concern. The 

 trustees will then reorganize the Turner Center corpo- 

 ration and issue stock therein to the shareholders in the 

 trust fund, each according to his contribution. 

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"Under this plan products may be bought of non-mem- 

 bers, but such will not receive any benefit from the profit 

 sharing feature or any ownership or interest in the busi- 



