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Show products too high, local industry j languishes or it must go to growing its own supply to manufacture. i The cry of sugar trust and cannery I trust is used by ambitious men to form powerful farmers' organizations organiza-tions for temporary artificial prices, i The so-called trust must market I its manufactured product in competition compe-tition with the whole world while producers have only home markets. When the farm and factory cease friendly co-operation, one or the other oth-er must bear the loss or go into both ends of the business. State or federal-owned manufacturing manufac-turing means in the long run that taxpayers must foot the bills for losses loss-es and farmers pay most taxes. FACTORY AND FARM CO-OPERATE. The most permanently prosperous sections of our country have been those where factory and farm co-operate in production. The sugar beet districts and the small fruit and vegetable cannery sections are where the farm houses are painted and land is high. Those sections employ the largest number of people to the square mile, have the most dairying and the largest larg-est bank deposits. There is a tendency for beet farmers farm-ers and fruit and vegetable growers to form pooling and marketing or-1 ganizations against factories. Improved marketing is very beneficial bene-ficial to the growers, but there is just as much danger of forming a growers' grow-ers' trust as any other. If the products of the soil'are forced forc-ed to the point where there is no profit in manufacture the related manufacturing languishes. For instance, the normal increased demand for sugar refineries and canning can-ning and preserving factories is about ten per cent a year. Unless there is friendly constructive construc-tive co-operation between growers of raw materials and manufacturers both parlies will suffer. If growers force prices of their |