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Show The Welfare of Agriculture "The welfare of agriculture even ev-en though it be the .nation's basic industry, cannot safely be trusted by those engaged in it, to the public pub-lic at large, to politicians or to public officials," said H. E. Bab-cock Bab-cock recently. "This situation demands organization organ-ization on the part of farmers. "The most important force in agriculture ag-riculture is education. I would put the importance of education even ahead of organization were there not signs on every hand that unless un-less farmers are organized first, they will not be able to protect the effectiveness of agricultural education." educa-tion." The cooperative movement, is indeed, in-deed, one form of farm education. It teaches agriculture the modern means of stabilizing itself and of laying a foundation for a scund, prosperous and progressive future. It is the greatest weapon the farmer, individually or in the mass, has in the war against chaotic cha-otic markets and ruinous prices. |