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Show UNDERLIE AGRICULTURAL STABILITY C. O. Moser, vice-president of the American Cotton Cooperative Co-operative Association, recently observed that cotton producers, produc-ers, like other groups of farmers, have three problems to contend with: First, production; second, the exchange of their product for the products and services of other producing produc-ing groups; third, national and international occurrences and issues which affect finance, employment, buying power, and so on. This gives a pretty good idea of what the farmer who trys to go it on his own, faces. Even the first and simplest of his problems, production, cannot be intelligently handled he can't know how many of his acres should be fruitful in order to product the highest possible return. When it comes to exchange he is almost powerless he simply takes what some buyer offers, and that is usually a very unfavorable unfavor-able price. And when he, in turn, buys the necessities and luxuries of life, he must buy in organized markets, where other producers have cooperated in one way or another to create profitable prices. In the case of national and international inter-national economic trends he is completely at sea. It is a testimonial to the vision of progressive farmers that, recognizing the difficulties faced by the individual they have created cooperatives to fight and solve their problems prob-lems for them. The cooperative has size, it has power, and it can employ experts in many fields. It is a force in the forming and passing of legislation, and is considered and consulted in pursuing the national agricultural policy. It is, in brief, the farmer's greatest vehicle on the road toward recovery and prosperity. |