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Show MARKETS NEEDED BY THE FARMERS Presence of Thriving Cities Near By, Important to Residents of Country. MERCHANTS DO THEIR PART Town and Rural Community Are Dependent De-pendent Upon Each Other Cooperation Co-operation Alone Brings Prosperity Pros-perity to Both. (Copyright.) Residents of towns and cities everywhere every-where are beginning to realize more acutely the fnct that, except under very unusual conditions, their communities commu-nities -7dll prosper and develop only In proportion to the prosperity and development de-velopment that comes to the farming sections which surround them. Realizing Real-izing this fact, commercial clubs and chambers of commerce have in recent years been devoting as much of their attention to developing the country districts as they have to securing new Industries and attracting new residents. resi-dents. They know that as the country coun-try about the towns becomes more thickly settled and as the farmers become be-come more prosperous the more money will be spent in the towns and the faster these -towns will grow. It Is largely for this reason that the residents resi-dents of the towns and cities have been doing more aDd more to aid the farmers in growing bigger crops and in improving marketing conditions. The towns and cities have contributed more and more liberally toward the building of good roads In the country districts and have paid a large part of the expense of maintaining agricultural agri-cultural experts to' assist the farmers in growing bigger crops and getting more money out of their crops when they are placed on the market. Not One-Sided Proposition. But this- is not a one-sided proposition. proposi-tion. If the city Is dependent upon the country, so is the country dependent depend-ent upon the city. What the farmer raises is worth absolutely nothing to him unless he can sell it at a price that will pay him a fair return on the money and time invested in its production. pro-duction. The farmer, without markets, mar-kets, would be In the same fix as a storekeeper without customers. In almost al-most every case the farmer is dependent de-pendent upon the near-by town or city for a market for at least his perishable perish-able products. In the language of the street, It is a fifty-fifty proposition. The town needs the country and the country needs the town. The farmer needs the assistance of the storekeepers of the town in securing a market for his products. He needs the assistance of the storekeepers of the town In getting good roads over which he may haul his products without losing more time than the products are worth. He often ueeds the assistance of the storekeepers storekeep-ers in helping him over a period of financial stringency. Storekeeper Needs Farmer's Trade. On the other hand the storekeeper needs the business of the farmer. He does not ask the farmer to sell him his products on credit even though at the time he may be hard pushed for cash and may nee9 more credit badly. He does not ask the farmer to help him build a sidewalk In front of his store. He does not ask for the business of the farmer provided that he can sell the farmer the goods he needs at as low- a price as he can secure them for elsewhere. But does he always get the farmer's business? Ask the mall order man in the big city or ask the postmaster nr the express agent in any town or city in the country. They could, if they would, tell of thousands of dollars sent away to the big cities to pay for goods that could be purchased just as cheaply and much more conveniently in the nearest town or city. These thousands of dollars, when sent to the mail order houses in the big cities, never come back. They do not help to build good, roads past, the farmers' houses. When the wxt crops are harvested, har-vested, the mail order man won't buy any of the farmer's products. The potatoes, the tomatoes, the melons and 1 other things that the farmer raises may lie and rot upon the ground so far as the mall order man Is concerned. No Credit From Mail Order Man. The mail order man won't sell the farmer 2 cents' worth of goods on one day's credit no matter how badly the farmer may need the goods or how little ready cash he has to pay for them. If the farmer's house burns down, the mail order man is not going go-ing to sell him any lumber on credit so that he may build another home. He will take what cash he can get the i farmer to send him and there his in- ' terest In the farmer ends. If the farmer farm-er has no money to pay for what he needs, the mall order man will find others to help swell the stream of dollars dol-lars which Is building up his great for- ; tune and helping build up the great j city In which he lives. Let the home merchant help the farmer when he needs It. And the local merchant does help the farmer as long as he can, but there comes a time when he cannot. : tie cannot nifike money i without cus-! tomers. Without the legitimate profit that he makes from his sales he can- j not "carry" the farmer over the rough ! spots, he cannot contribute to the good j roads funds, he rannot pay the farmer cash for his products I j |