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Tuesday Morning, February ii 



CONFERENCE ON CO-OPERATION 



President White: Will the meeting please come to order? 

 The first subject on our program is a discussion of co-operation. 

 So far as popular sentiment is concerned and the desire for co-opera- 

 tive work in the marketing of products, there has been more ac- 

 complished in the last year than there had been in the preceding ten. 

 About a year ago, at the State Agricultural Society meeting, a 

 resolution was introduced calling for a meeting of producers and 

 consumers to be held in April of last year at the Board of Trade 

 rooms in New York. There were present a good many different 

 representatives of the agricultural interests — the officers of the 

 grange, of the horticultural societies, of the Vegetable Growers* 

 Association, and of the Long Island interests, and also of the Con- 

 sumers' League and other organizations of similar character. A 

 committee of one hundred was made up, of which John J. Dillon, 

 manager of The Rural New-Yorker, was chairman, to be continued 

 as a permanent organization. Mr. Dillon went to Europe to study 

 the methods of co-operation in the old countries, and called a meet- 

 ing following that on December fifth. This meeting was very 

 well attended, that is, different interests were well represented. 

 As a result, a definite move was made towards bringing about a 

 combined organization which should have its headquarters in New 

 York. A committee was appointed for the purpose, of which Mr. 

 Dillon w^as chairman, and William J. Osborne of iVuburn, Ex-Mayor 

 Seth Low of Brooklyn, and Mrs. Julian Heath, President of the 



