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CO-OPERATION. 



The Long Island Potato Exchange is an incorporated association, 

 capital $20,000.00, divided into four thousand shares of 85.00 each. 

 The minimum amount any one member can hold is one share, the 

 maximum, five per cent of the total capital stock, which would be 

 two hundred shares. 



The objects of the Association are : 



To establish conditions whereby anyone desiring may buy Long 

 Island produce true to name. 



To develop present markets and find new ones for all their pro- 

 duce. To ascertain the conditions of the crops throughout the 

 season and furnish this information to the stockholders. 



To secure pure seed at as low a price as is consistent with the best 

 quality. 



To buy and sell or manufacture all kinds of supplies. 



To buy and sell and consign all kinds of farm produce, and to 

 establish uniform grades of the same. 



To arrange for the transportation and handling of all produce 

 in the best possible manner. 



To own or lease and operate storage warehouses and packing 

 houses for produce. 



The ofiicers are president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, 

 general manager, general inspector and a board of directors. They 

 have two packing houses. The assistant manager acts as inspector. 

 They do not make contracts with their growers, neither do they pool 

 their shipments, but buy outright from their members. They handle 

 fertilizers and seeds extensively. The members, as a general rule, 

 are satisfied that the association is a good thing for them. A few, 

 however, are dissatisfied, because greater results have not been 

 accomplished, and the main reason that greater benefits have not 

 been secured is because these same members have not been as loyal 

 as they should have been to the association. 



The Ionia Growers' Association is another association with presi- 

 dent, vice-president, secretary, manager, also treasurer and board of 

 directors. So far this Association has handled nothing but the 

 cucumber crop of its members, but it has made a great success in 

 handling this crop and prices realized have been very satisfactory. 

 They have a central packing house where all goods are graded and 

 inspected, handling over one hundred cars each season. In most 

 cases, a satisfactory agent has been selected from among the com- 

 mission houses in each city shipped to, and this firm handles the 



