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BUSINESS PROCEEDINGS 



PROGRAM 



Mr. Work: One other thing that you will perhaps be inter- 

 ested in is our program. We printed 5000 copies of the program that 

 has been put in your hands, the special program of our organization. 

 The expense has been met by the advertisements. The printing, the 

 mailing, and the handling of that program has cost us somewhere 

 in the neighborhood of $175. We have advertisements in the pro- 

 gram to the extent of $190, but this also carries with it the insertion 

 of advertisements in our annual report. Last year we came out 

 just a little ahead on our program, so that our printing work is 

 going far towards paying for itself. 



FEDERATION COUNCIL 



Mr. W^ork: Ever since this ^Association was organized, it has 

 been the feeling that some special work ought to be done by way of 

 connecting local organizations over the state with the central body. 

 A provision was entered in the constitution that gives us the founda- 

 tion for this: "Article VIII. Federation. Any local or district 

 organization representing vegetable growers may become affiliated 

 with this x4ssociation by the appointment of an official representative, 

 and the payment of an annual fee of five dollars. It shall be the duty 

 of the Committee on Federation to promote the formation of such 

 local organizations, and secure the affiliation of these and existing 

 organizations with the State xVssociation." Comparatively little 

 has been done in this direction in the way of a definite form of affilia- 

 tion, and we have been searching all the while for a plan under which 

 this could logically be done and under which something definite 

 could be offered to those associations. Last night the Executive 

 Committee met and the deliberations were formulated in this way : 

 "The official representatives of local organizations, together with the 

 Executive Committee's hall constitute the Federation Council of 

 this Association. The Federation Council shall meet each year to 

 recommend to the i^ssociation such action as shall be deemed best 

 for the furtherance of the interests of their local organizations, of 

 the State Association, and of the vegetable producers as a whole." 



I hardly know how to state the possible usefulness of such a coun- 

 cil, and I hope I will be corrected if my statements are not in full 

 accord with the deliberations last night. It has been the feeling that 

 our organization is likely to become rather large for a deliberative 

 body, and yet there ought to be some closer connection between 



