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Show Sound Principles Essential To Farm Cooperation Ihe benefits of agricultural cooperation co-operation are great but a cooperative cooper-ative must operate a sound basis if it is to survive. For example, since 1897 there have been 5 cooperative milk marketing mar-keting organizations in the Chicago area. Two of them, failed because they opposed reasonable sanitary regulations. The third failed because be-cause of internal dissention. - The fourth failed through insisting on a higher price for milk than the rr.arket would stand. The fifth alone remains. It has followed sound marketing policies and has fully complied with health regulations. It has not been endangered en-dangered by serious Internal troubles. trou-bles. It hoR not tried to Inflate prices to unjustified levels. And tt has succeeded. A similar situation exists in other oth-er parts of the country, such as New York, where the Dairymen's League Cooperative Association has learned frrm the failure of other co-ops and has made a fine record of achievement. No Cooperatives can pursue unbuild ecoromlc policies poli-cies and keep In business long. |