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Show PASSIVE VS. AGGRESSIVE COOPERATION Today agriculture, like other business, faces a period of reconstruction. re-construction. The farmer's markets are chaoic. Prices are still at ruinous levels. The specters of mortgage foreclosures and constantly con-stantly mounting taxes at a time when profits are at the vanishing van-ishing point, are always before him. The most practical way of bettering the situation is through cooperation. This does not mean passive cooperation such as becoming a member of some cooperative, paying dues, and letting it go at that. It means aggressive cooperation where everv farmer con-aiders con-aiders fighting for the cooperative his personal affair. In brief, the farmer must continually work for his cooperative. cooper-ative. He must strive to gain new members. He must point out to his neighbors the benefits that only cooperation can gain. He must offer whole souled, undeviating allegiance. . There is more than depression to the plight of agriculture. Even in the boom days, the farmer, as a class, was disorganized. He had failed, to build a sound system to meet the exigencies of the future. During the past few years the cooperatives have made great progress and that is one of the bright spots of agricultural ag-ricultural depression. |