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Show PLANS TO HELP FARMERS The farmer cannot solve his marketing problems by individual effort, neither is co-operative marketing a panacea for all the farmer's farm-er's economis difficulties. His taxation cannot come down with enormous en-ormous issues of tax-free securities by which great wealth escapes taxation. Some think that the whole economic difficulty of the American farmer could be righted if co-operation could be substituted for other methods of selling. Because of this, these people feel that the Federal government should become sponsor and promoter of individual associations, paying out of Federal funds of cost of organizing organ-izing these associations and practically all the costs of operating them. Mr. Tenny of the Department of Agriculture, shows that the essentials of successful co-operation include organization along commodity com-modity lines, the obtaining of sufficient tonnage definitely secured by legal contracts, the securing of able, honest business administrators and a complet and satisfactory financing plan, and the incorporation into the whole scheme of a few simple fundamental co-operative ideas. |