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Show I , .! j iH There Is No Nation. That Cannot Teach tH UsSomething About-Farming w t H " -r- 11 i J5;r FR'.'VNK 0. LtftfDEN, Former Governor of Illinois.'"1 1 IJjlJjB I " : '-' ' . m' ... .ll ijH v'53'"'ij T'10 farnier. believes in tho. value of what he, pro- H ytfp .k duces jvml know that it is indispensable to tho world tf f i qB '' civilization is to go on. When he sees Hint the total lf i'( ?3&9 value1 of an unusually large crop is lesin the markets lf k 1 -jlw 1L' worid that) tho value of a small crop, ho knows lJ v r that something; is wrong in our methods of distribution. IJ V". He docs not .need to bo familiar with higher mathe- l J ivP M nmcs Slirc lllt 100,000 bales of cotton H ?&jfc&J Ji ought to be worth more than 6,000,000 bnlcsj for chch H 4ifi(t tll 1200O000 l)ft08 Xvi11 l0 genuinely serviceable IB . sooner or later in clothing the world. H We know that no commodity will be long produced below the cost of production, and therefore it ought never bo necessary to market any farm commodity below such cost; for if that commodity can ho stored and held, tho world will havo to pay the cost eorno day. IH These problems have been met and solved, in a large measure, in l Holland and Denmark and among the fruit growers of California, by the IH organization of farmer's co-opcrntivo. societies. These societies do not IH attempt arbitrarily to fix prices. Tlipy do study the probable demand and H attempt to adjust production to meet that demand. IH Instend of throwing the entire, season's crop upon the market Within tH a few short weeks, they provide for orderly marketing of their. products, H The tendency of tlus is to stabilise the.mnrket. Aud stabilizing tho mar- IH kft of any product is in the end best for tho consumer and-the producer. H It is never a good thing for anyone when any useful 'commodity is IH sold for less than the coat, for under the inexorable laV3 of economies "cur- H tailed production will follow until prices abnormally high aro tho result. H Any commodity that is produced profitably year after year will in a hmg H scries of years bo produced more cheaply than where there aro violpjit H fluctuations. H BBBBBBBB "While in every other industry we aro abreast of tho .most- advanced H nations in commerce in manufacture, in banking and merchandising H there. is not a nation in tho world that cannot tench' America something H about farming-. H |