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Show COLLECTIVE ACTION MEANS PROGRESS Farmers, when they organize farm cooperatives, are not trying unproven experiments. They are simply following follow-ing an old and sound precedent. A great measure of America's industrial progress can be laid to cooperation. The corporation form of business, for example, is pure cooperation it makes it possible to pool the resources and abilities of many persons in an effort ef-fort to develop and sell a product or a service to the benefit of all- Labor, through unions, embraces cooperative activity, which has done much to raise wages, shorten working hours and better conditions. In the past, only agriculture has lagged behind the trend. The result was disorganization in the best of times and chaos in times of depression. There was no adequate check on production. There was no successful way of adapting adapt-ing supply to demand. Distribution was wasteful and inefficient. in-efficient. And farm progress and prosperity suffered accordingly. ac-cordingly. Great agricultural cooperatives, such as the Dairymen's League Cooperative Association of New York, have taken the guesswork out of dairying they are putting it on a sound," scientific basis. They base their activities on proven business principles and demonstrate that collective" action means the farmer's economic salvation, They are sounding the death knell to the old laissez-faire days on the farm and the modern farmer, who works with and for his co-op, is going forward. |