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Show , Taking The Long View In any discussion of the cooper-tive cooper-tive movement, the long-time lew must be paramount. Any farmer who expects his co-iperative co-iperative to Immediately raise the rices, open up his market and Nj goring prosperity back with a bang, ' is doomed to disappointment. No human agency can do those things overnight. The stregth of cooperatives coopera-tives is in that they are carefully and soundly laying the foundation for future prosperity not boom prosperity, which goes as fast as it comes, but prosperity of a real and permanent nature. In doing this, the cooperatives must ask members to make temporary tem-porary sacrifices. It is occasionally possible for the non-cooperative farmer to get a slightly better price for what he sells than the cooperative cooper-ative farmer but profit of that kind is dangerous indeed. It stems from a well-defined effort to wreck the cooperatives and again put the farmer where he has only his own puny resources to lean on. Better prices, surer markets, improved living and working conditions con-ditions for agriculture these are what cooperation stands for. If . they are worth achieving, every good cooperative is worthy of all support and loyalty from thc-farmers thc-farmers of its territory. |