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Show Four Farm Problems C. O. Moser, President of the National Cooperative Council and Vice-President of the American Cotton Cooperative Association, recently re-cently pointed out that the prosperity pros-perity of the farmer depends upon four things: 1. The cost of his production. 2. The volume of his production. 3. The price he obtains for Vhat he produces. 4. The price he pays for what he buys. As Mr. Moser observed, the first two are largely the problems of the individual. The next two are mainly main-ly the problems of the farmer as a group. They are the reason-for-belng of the cooperative movement. No single farmer, dealing with a large buying or selling organization, organiza-tion, can have a voice in price. He must take what he is offered or lose the business. When he joins with thousands of other farmers whose problems and hopes are one with his, the shoe is on the other foot. The buying or selling organization organ-ization has met its equal and the price is much more likely to be a fair one. No cooperative, of course, can raise prices to the desired level in times like these. What they can do is to keep them higher than they would otherwise be and prepare the groundwork for future achievements. achieve-ments. All over the country the cooperative movement is making gai)is, both in strength and membership, mem-bership, and the results are begin-( begin-( rijng to show. When the economic clouds firally clear, an organized agriculture can be ready for a period of prosperity unprecedented in this century. |