Show I Cooperatives For Common Welfare The principal reason for the of the farm cooperatives is to benefit their members by stabilizing markets and raising prices to levels where producers are able to 10 make a reasonable profit At the same time the public at large obtains just about as many benefits from successful agricultural agricultural agricultural tural cooperation as as' as do the farmers farmers farm farm- ers themselves No one gains when agriculture agricultures e eis is s profitless The farm fann is the greatest single market in normal periods for the products of our fac- fac tories the great bulk of urban Industrial workers can trace their employment directly or Indirectly to the farm consumer A constant supply of ot agricultural agricultural tural ural goods is essential to our national national nat- nat ional onal life and when markets marke are disorganized and prices are in the basement the farmer is unable to efficiently keep the great machinery machinery machin- machin ery ry of production and distribution going The thinking public is solidly behind the cooperative movement and nd a wide measure of the thc success I it t has achieved in the face of great may be attributed to o that Urban and rural groups have ave the same objectives and they must pull for the common |