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Show ' t Ssvcn HL'iijij Producers There are seven million farmers in (lie United Slates. Add llieir families, an, I the total conies to some (100,0011 people lhc "'" tiiling the soil.-and who constitute. the largest single market for the products of our factories. That is one reason why agricultural cooiorativo marketing hits been giVe such wide approval by (ho spokesmen for industry, indus-try, no less (han the spokesmen for tho farmer. This kind of cooperation has dcfnilely proven itself to bo the strongest economic weapon tho farmer possesses. It is based squarely sq-uarely on business principles, not on tenuous theories. It gees on unchanged year after year, while government farm relief var lew with every shift in tho political wind. A good percentage of those 7,000,000 American farmers are members of farmer owned, farmer controlled marketing cooperatives. coopera-tives. More are joining yearly. The co-ops don't perform miracles. miracl-es. Itut thoy do obtain the best possible break for agriculture as a whole. |