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Show FAIR PROFIT FOR PRODUCER No Ea;.y Task to Successfully Organize aNd Manage Selling Associations Associa-tions Among Farmers. Organized marketing must take the place of unwise and suicidal competitive competi-tive individual selling on congested local markets before we can reasonably reason-ably hope- to obtain a fair share of the wealth which we are creating on our farms, it is folly to contend that cooperative co-operative marketing is Impracticable in the- face of the many living examples exam-ples in localities where marketing associations as-sociations are doubling the profits of co-operative members. It is true that it is no easy task to successfully organize or-ganize and manage a selling association, associa-tion, but the very fact that it requires patient and persistent effort makes it all the more profitable for those who stay by it during the formative and experimental period of its existence. In this connection, let us again sound warning against big schemes of co-operation in which it is proposed to include every farmer in the whole neighborhood or county. Successful cooperation co-operation never begins that way. Building the co-operative structure on the presumption or theory that 500 farmers, even 100 farmers, are surely going to fall right in line as loyal co-operators co-operators is like counting chickens before they are hatched. It is this unwise presumption that dooms many co-operative ventures to disappointment disappoint-ment and failure. The best co-operative marketing associations as-sociations have started with small groups of men and have gradually enlarged en-larged the fiok. of operation as the men in charge acquired experience and became worthy of confidence. In view of this condition, why lose time dreaming dream-ing of some Dig co-operative scheme? If you can't co-operate first with a small group of farmers in your own neighborhood with whom you are personally per-sonally acquainted, how can you expect ex-pect to co-op jrate, in a big scheme, with farners that you do not know? The Progress! v. Farmer. |