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Show COOPERATIVE FARM MARKETING NOTES Progress of the Movement to "Put Farming on Par With , Other Big Business." A pamphlet and questionnaire on co operative farm marketing recently Issued Is-sued by the State Bank Division, American Bankers Association, has brought out valuable Information on the subject from bankers, farmers and state agricultural departments. It is being used as a campaign document In the organization of co-operative mar- seung associations In various sections of the country, farmers havlog adopted adopt-ed its slogan: "Put Agriculture on a Par with Other Big Business." e The movemeot on the part of fanners fann-ers toward co-operative marketing si b cure for their present economic plight la nation-wide. There has been Double progress In the development of such associations, some conspicuously conspicu-ously successful ones being In operation opera-tion at the present time. There have also been some disastrous failures among these ventures In co-operative marketing, which Is the Inevitable accompaniment ac-companiment of the progress of any movement The "Banker -Farmer," published by the American Bankers Association, says: "Cause and effect are operative In cooperative marketing as truly as they are In every other business enterprise. enter-prise. An association will not neces-arlly neces-arlly succeed or fail merely because It Is a co operative association, but because be-cause It conforms to or transgresses from the underlying principles of successful suc-cessful business operation. The movement move-ment Itself Is of great national Import and the bankers of the country can materially aid or retard its progress. The responsibility of leadership n rural communities rests very largely with the country banker. It is bis duty to be Informed on all matters re-! re-! latlng to the farmers' well being." 1 1 i j Modern conditions are such that ag-I ag-I rlculture cannot be successful by In ; dividual effort. To regain Its position j as a basic industry, and as a force In national affairs, agriculture must de-; de-; pend upon organization and co opera-: opera-: tiou for economic production, for coo-j coo-j nmnlc marketing and for the esiuli. ' j lishment of lis proper re!-i!jonxhlp" community l,fe. - llo-.vard Leonard. I I'lVNid. nt, Illiii i.s Agricultural A.iso-" I tiaiiun. I I |
