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CONFERENCE ON CO-OPERATION 



President White: The grange has been very backward about 

 taking any action in the way of co-operative seUing. The New York 

 State Vegetable Growers' Association was pretty well represented 

 at its meeting this year. Mr. Tuttle and myself had a conference 

 with the executive committee and officers of the state grange, and 

 got them to agree to an idea something along this line, that a com- 

 mittee should be appointed to work up a general plan of co-operation. 

 We took the ground that if they didn't do it, co-operative work was 

 going on anyway. It would be more or less disastrous. Organiza- 

 tions would be formed without any real data to work from and upon 

 principles that would be disastrous to them; and we appealed to 

 them in this way, that it was the duty of the New York State Grange 

 to direct that work. They agreed to it. Mr. Tuttle introduced a 

 resolution that passed, by which the executive committee is not 

 only authorized but instructed to appoint a committee, and there 

 is to be a supervisor. We have the New York State Grange work- 

 ing with us. The State Fruit Growers' Association, which has 

 also been backward, is getting in line, also the Western New York 

 Horticultural Society; and the Agricultural Society is, as I said, 

 taking a very active part. We are gradually bringing all these 

 forces to center in a common effort. It isn't a little proposition. 

 Before we get done with marketing the products, it will involve 

 millions of dollars. Yet it can be accomplished if we all pull to- 

 gether. I am going to ask Mr. Aldrich to take the chair of this 

 meeting, as I have to speak elsewhere. 



Mr. Aldrich: Mr. Work, whom shall I call on to discuss co- 

 operation .f^ 



Mr. Work: It depends upon what the members wish. If 

 the members would like to hear about some of the things that are 

 being done in co-operative work in different sections of the state, 

 there are a number of men here who have been active in this work. 

 Mr. Talmage, Mr. Cook, and Mr. Aldrich himself are among them. 



Mr. Aldrich: Will Mr. Cook give us some light along this line.'^ 



SOUTH SHORE GROWERS' AND SHIPPERS' ASSOCIATION 



Mr. Cook: I would say that the South Shore Growers' and 

 Shippers' Association of Silver Creek, New York, was incorporated 

 a year ago the 28th day of December. A few men got together, 

 thinking that they would be greatly benefited by joining hands 



