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Show DON'T EXPECT TOO MUCH There is one important danger in state or federal efforts to aid farmers through price control that the farmers will expect to much. It is possible, for example, for a state to decree that the price of all cheese sold within its borders shall be raised on a certain aay by three cents a pound. This is done and immediately a multitude of other problems follow. The questions of export and import, the attitude of the distributor and the buying public, the situuation in regard to demand and production these are matters mat-ters no regulatory authority can control simply by edict. Nor can legislators repeal the law of supply and demand, pleasant as that would be. In the long ran, improvement in the financial condition of agriculture must come through developing the farm producing and selling structure in accordance with inexorable inex-orable economic laws. And in this work, the fanner's greatest ally is not goverment, but his own cooperative organization, iade up of himself and his neighbors and co-workers, his own immediate interest at heart and is, as well, building for a sound and permanently prosperous future. It belongs to him it is responsive re-sponsive to his will and his needs, and not to political pressure. The more active interest government takes in farming, the greater will be the need for producer organization. The stronger strong-er such organizations are, the more influential they will be and the better their chance of protecting the fanner from unwise political action, and directing government measures into really worthwhile channels. No, the farmer musn't expect too much from government. It will do its best but its best can be greatly aided by strong cooperatives. co-operatives. . |