Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-07
FARMERS HAVE ORGANIZED
 ON A COMMUNITY BASIS

The farmers in the town of Water
 ford have taken a long step forward 1T
 organizing definitely on community
 basis At a meeting held the latter part
 of July a number of projects were dis
 cuSSed for the community and It was
 found that the improvement of the dairy
 herds, contEol of fruit diseases, and bet
 ter methods of buying farm products
 were the most important things to be
 worked out in that community. At that
 meeting a committee made up of H. R.
 Whitman 0. Rl Dimmock; F. S. Barrett,
 Hugh Mackenzie and Ellery Allyn were
 appointed to go over these projects and
 draw up recommendations to be consid-
 cred at the next meeting
 The next meeting was he'd on August
 and H. H. Whitman as chairman of
 the committee brought in the following
 report He stated that the committee had considered carefully the projects
 that had been lined up and suggested the
 addition of the improvement of the poul-
 try stock to the other projects. The
 committee recommended that leaders be
 pkced definitely in charge of each one
 of these projects to make up com. munity committee. The following men were elected at this meeting to be in
 charge of the projects: O. H. Dimmoc!i in charge of dairy project; c. k. Chap man in charge of the fruit project with w. W. Wright; H.. H. Leland in charge of the poultry project and H. R. Wait man to have charge of the project look ing toward the growing of. better rough ages. MT. Whitman also reported on the marketing project, stating that it was the feeling of the committee that coop i erative work in marketing could be. done to advantage in this community. Arthur Shedd. manager of the Preston Coopera- tive Exchange, then gave a talk on the work of this organization. He stated that the Preston Exchange had done a business of between Sa5 GOO and $3o. .00o during the last year and had saved the farmers large amount of money. lie brought out very forciby the fact that the members of this exchange put in their orders before cars were ordered out and paid cash at car door when the car
 arrived, thereby getting out of retailer $
 charges for overhead expenses. The chairman of the meeting then called for show of hands as to how many were in favor of organizing cooperative or ganization and the majority of those present signified that they were interest ed in seeing this done. After some dis cussion it was suggested that the, capi- tol stock is set at $1o,000, divided into 400 shares of S25 each A motion was
 made and carried that a committee of seven men be appointed by the chair to
 have charge of cahvassing the territory in an effort to secure many subscrip- ton as possible who were not present at the meeting: C.. E. Kenyon, Hugh Mackenzie, J. H Brigham, T. w. Wood
 Stanley D. Morgan. Ellery Allyn and H H. Whitman were appointed by Cha r. man Dirnmock. The committee elected Mir Whitman chairman and. made inn l, mediate plans for covering the territory in the near. future and set the date Of the organization meeting for suhscrib- CTS for August IS. Sixteen men signed up for a. total of 54 shares of stock at ! this meeting with the understanding that ! would not be held responsible. With if at least 5000 was not raised they $1S50. however. already pledged 1t should be a very easy matter to raise considerable more than the S1000 sat as
 the minimum amount of capitol by this | committee.