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will be very good. Our Board of Directors seem to be per- 

 fectly willing to stand that ten cents per capita tax. 



Mr. Work: We have to make the change now in Article 

 III, which has to do with membership. It reads: 



'*Sec. 1. Membership shall be of two kinds, active and 

 sustaining. 



"Sec. 2. All vegetable growers are eligible to active mem- 

 bership. 



''Sec. 3. Fees — active membership, two dollars per an- 

 num; sustaining membership, one hundred dollars." 



Sec. 3 is to be amended as follows: 



"Sec. 3. Fees — active membership, two dollars per an- 

 num; to members of affiliated local associations, one dollar 

 and fifty cents ; sustaining membership, one hundred dollars." 



Question: That applies to one year after another? 



Mr. Greffrath: No change this year, but it will apply 

 in 1915 and thereafter. 



Mr. Greffrath : A motion for the adoption of this amend- 

 ment is in order. 



Mr. Hallauer: I move its adoption. (Seconded by Mr. 

 Coleman. Carried unanimously). 



Mr. Work: The last amendment that we need is intend- 

 ed to make it easier to amend the constitution as far as time 

 is concerned, but no easier as far as notification of members 

 is concerned. Article IX reads as follows: 



"Art. IX. This constitution may be amended by a m.ajority 

 vote at any annual meeting, provided such amendment shall 

 have been presented in writing at the last preceding annual 

 meeting." 



The present scheme provides that everyone that is here and 

 everyone that is at the meeting next year shall know about it. 



The proposed amendment would make the article read thus : 



"Art. IX. This constitution may be amended by (1) peti- 

 tion of ten members or action of the Executive Committee; 

 (2) submission to members in writing thirty days before the 



