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Show FARM PRODUCTS AP.fc WASTED Ideaa of Cooperation Is Everywhere Hailed as Desirable Thing, Save President Van Hiss. "The waste in iistribution of agricultural agri-cultural products Is to be reckoned each year In hundreds of millions of dollars." declared President Charles It. Van Hise of the University of Wit-conain Wit-conain In an address on "Waste In Distribution," In-fore the Firm Na tional Conference on Marketing and Farm Credits at Chicago recently. "Tbe solution of the Industrial situation sit-uation of the farmers Is to be found in cooperation among themselves, and co-operation with the rotiMinier for their mutual benefit In order to eliminate tbe great wastea of the existing ex-isting d'st-it'ti'ltiK blem and thus secure efflclency "The Idea of co-operation Is everywhere every-where balled as a desirable thing lor the farmer; and this Is true at a urn-when urn-when there is equal denunciation of combinations of a kind commonly called trysts. It should be fully un derstood Uut combination by menu facturers Is for lite very same pur-pora pur-pora that co-operation Is derlgned to cover for the farmer , "It thus appear dear that to reduce re-duce tbe waste of distribution and successfully to Introduce coopcraiion. will require a l.inl,:.i stlou of the ex istlng anti trust la as. n:itior.i,l and Mate. The furmeri ci'iinot hope to rblrn for thi.ii ejte the advantages nf cooperation without permit tine m.Tllar adventures to those engaged In oilier lines of Industry The rem rdy for the abuses In cooperation bv manufscturers consists not In reh;b lllng the sdv?rtges of cooperation Imii in proh'bitlnr th evil praclle bich have ariren In connettion with "o.Tb::iati n " , |