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Show SCHEME TO WORK TOGETHER Farmers' Clubs Can Be Made Starting Point for Many Co-operative Agricultural Enterprises. One of tlio striking things about the development of manufacturing, merchandising mer-chandising and commerce is the large scale on which they are carried on. says Indiana Farmer. This means that a great many people work together. It will be found that the work is divided di-vided up in such a way that certain groups of people work at one thing and so develop special skill and speed In doing this particular work. Other groups do other lines of work. This means that everyone employed in the industry develops special skill for doing do-ing his or her particular line of work, and each line of work is under the direction di-rection of an expert. This results in making the factory, railroad or whatever what-ever It is more efficient. In farming it Is not so easy to bring this about, as each one must necessarily necessar-ily do practically all the different kinds of work that need to be done on a farm. However, one farmer will develop de-velop particular skill in feeding hogs, another has great success in raising horses. Another had a special knack for making roads, still another farmer can make trees and fruit to do exceptionally excep-tionally well. Such farmers are experts ex-perts in these lines of work. They ought to be made the experts for the community so that their skill can be brought on to all the farms in the community. If this could be carried out the production of the farms in , any community would be greatly increased. in-creased. One way of bringing this about is the farmers' club. The farmer who has had success in growing hogs can tell his neighbors how he did it. As his farm is located right in the locality, anyone who is interested'ean visit the farm and get more information in this , way. The different lines can be gone over in the same way. This would re- , suit in bringing the best methods worked out on each Individual farm . on to many of the other farms in the 5 locality. " This would not only spread the skill of the individual farmer on to many farms, but it would be a great stimulus stimu-lus to the most successful farmers. j They would have the eyes of their ' neighbor watching their methods I They would want to do even better, I which jvould lead them to study their ! particular line more than ever. ! A great deal could be- done to en ! courage the breeding . of purebred ! stock, and to confine it to one breed ! It is a misfortune for a community ! to have several breeds of cattle. It Is best to have Just one. Then the com I munity will develop that breed bettel and that much more quickly become ! noted for that one breeo ! The subject of marketing and buy ', ing can be taken Up in the club. I X the club members win bnv .r.npJ S they can often secure better price from the grocer, the hardware deale t and the machine dealer, etc. a The farmers' clubs can be made th starting point for these co-operativ R enterprises. It can be used to seeur the farmers the benefits that big busi :t ness secures from doing things on ; big scale. Many have the Idea tha nothing can be done unless there i a big organization. This is a mistake e The successful cooperative entei iv prises have come from small begirj nings. |