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Show COOPERATION AT ALL TIMES. It is interesting to note that of all the plans that have been suggested to aid the farmer, only one has been given anything like unanimous approval ap-proval by experts the farm cooperative. cooper-ative. Cooperation, both in producing and marketing, must be the dominant factor fac-tor in any program designed to restore res-tore prosperity to agriculture. It is sound in economic principle a fact that has been proven by American manufacturing industries, as well, as by the long-established farm cooperatives coopera-tives and it produces definite results. re-sults. It cannot be too often pointed out that the individual farmer, when he goes to sell his products, is at an inescapable ' disadvantage. He must take what is offered or fail to sell. But when he bands together with ten or fifty or a hundred thousand other farmers, the shoe is on the other foot. He has become "big business" himself, and he can bargain and make fair terms. It is said that one barrier in the way of successful cooperatives, in the past, has been the virtual refusal of many farmers to cooperate when times are comparatively good. Then, when bad times come along, they are without the organization and machinery machin-ery for taking decisive action. If the present severe agricultural depression depres-sion has taught farmers that they must cooperate all the time and under un-der all circumstances if they are to prosper, it will have done a great deal for the American farming industry. |