OCR Text |
Show COOPERATIVES AS EDUCATORS In the past few years, much of the most important work of farm cooperative organizations has been in the field of education. Only part of this educrlional activity has been directed at their members and other farmers. The public has shared shar-ed in it. So have government officials. So have business men. Progressive cooperatives are making the desires and needs of the farnier understood by the urban and political worlds. The full effect of that work has not been seen yet, but it is difficult to grasp its importance. At the moment the general public is probably better informed on the farm situation, situ-ation, and is more sympathetically minded toward agriculture, agricul-ture, than it ever has been before largely because of thr cooperatives. And there has never been a time when representatives repre-sentatives of the organized farmers found so ready a welcome wel-come at Washington, and so eager an audience to listen to the advise they have to offer. The hand of the cooperatives is apparent in some of the most important paragraphs of the recent agricultural aet. The work of the cooperatives is never-ending they're meeting new problems daily, battling them, and winning out. They're laying the soundest foundation on which to build, that agriculture ever had. They're getting rid of old ideas, out-moded methods, lethargic and ignorant attitudes of mind. They're deserving of the utmost success. . n |