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We would change that to read thus: 



''Any local or district organization representing vegetable 

 growers may become affiliated with this Association by the 

 appointment of an official representative and the pajTnent of 

 an annual fee of five dollars plus ten cents per member for 

 all membership in excess of fifty. 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 Association." 



Action on this change would be taken this year, and again 

 next year, and then it will go into effect. As I understand 

 it, a motion is now in order to amend the constitution as 

 recommended. Then I will present to you a plan by which 

 the constitution can be more readily amended in the future. 



Mr. Warren: I wonder why it would not be better to 

 assess each organization so much per member. I wonder if 

 it would not keep the larger organizations of the state out of 

 the affiliation. If you have two hundred members, the fee 

 will be $20.00. 



Mr. Hay : Would it not be liable to cost your large organi- 

 zations more than $20.00 if they had a per capita tax? 



Mr. Greffrath : Some organizations have only fiJteen 

 or twenty. 



Mr. Warren : We have an association of 150 or 175 mem- 

 bers at Irondequoit. We do not need to join if we don't want 

 to. Some members may say we might as well save our 

 twenty dollars. 



Mr. Bonney : I think the Irondequoit association is larger 

 minded than that. 



Mr. Warford: We have an organization of 27. Five 

 dollars seems to even up. I move the amendment be adopted. 

 (Seconded by Mr. Warren. Carried unanimously). 



Mr. Cook (Chautauqua County) : I was just thinking 

 how that would hit the South Shore, but I feel confident in 

 saying that our organization will never buck against that. 

 We had some talk about it. Mr. Cockburn says : "That is 

 some money, isn't it?" I believe if it works out that way it 



