BUSINESS PROCEEDINGS 



163 



this body and the actual problems of the field than is secured through 

 a small executive committee. If a body consisting of one man from 

 each of these affiliated associations should meet each year, that body 

 would be able to bring to the attention of the main body the needs 

 of those local associations, and to point out ways in which the general 

 Association could be useful, either to those organizations or to the 

 industry as a whole. Furthermore, in this council, methods of work, 

 ideas that have been carried out here and there, and experiences 

 could be compared, to the mutual advantages of all the associations 

 represented. 



I might say that our circuit work is right along this line. I spoke 

 of that this morning. We have already sent one speaker to two 

 places under a plan of co-operation between the local organization, our 

 Association, and the Extension Department of this College. We 

 hope to carry the plan further. We had thought of making the 

 affiliation fee a requisite to the enjoyment of this benefit by local 

 associations. The feeling was, however, that that privilege ought 

 to be open to all associations. That will be one of the benefits to 

 local organizations, and that five dollar fee will go toward the support 

 of this, with the other x4ssociation work. The question is, is there 

 sufficient merit in the scheme of affiliation to draw organizations to 

 us? 



Mr. Tuttle: I think that the thought of the members of the 

 Executive Committee was that this Association ought to do all that it 

 could to project itself into all quarters of the state, and while it doesn't 

 seem that we are going to receive large accessions to our membership, 

 we might extend our influence by interesting local organizations, not 

 merely vegetable growers' organizations under that name, but 

 organizations of farmers in all sections of the state, to appoint 

 representatives of their bodies to meet with this body and to become 

 members of a council which should have particularly in charge the 

 local requirements of their own organizations, and in that way report 

 those requirements to this body and receive such benefits as they 

 could through this organization. I want to say that, in my judg- 

 ment, the one benefit of this organization that is worth more to us 

 and to all affiliated organizations than it costs is its influence upon 

 legislation and in any deliberative body or conference in which it 

 may take part. Last April, we held a conference in New York City 

 on the subjct of co-operation. Some thirty or forty different organi- 



