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Show Long Pull Out Of The Red A certain percentage of American Ameri-can farmers refrain from joining cooperatives because those organizations organ-izations haven't been able to brin' prices back to former high levels or solve various other problems perplexing agriculture. The success of the whole cooperative coop-erative movement must depend on the long pull not on a temporary-success temporary-success of the moment, but on the eventual development of a strong, loyally supported and adequately financed concern which can a-chieve a-chieve a fair deal for the farmer all the time. There are times when the individual indi-vidual farmer can get a better price for his product by selling it independently, instead of through a cooperative but the dollars made that way are dearly won indeed. in-deed. The middlemen who offer higher prices to so-called "Independents" "Inde-pendents" In an effort to wreck the cooperatives, are not the farmers' farm-ers' hope for the future. Every farmer who deserts a worthy cooperative coop-erative Is simply delaying permanent perma-nent agricultural progress The cotton glowers of the South the milk producers of New York, other producers in other sections, have found the value of cooperation. coopera-tion. The fundamental principle behind the movement represents sound economics and sound sociol ogy too. It can bring the farmer out of the red. |