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more effective dollar than any they expend. A narrow view has 

 been taken by many of their responsibility to themselves, for it 

 is their affair, and of their duty to their neighbors in the matter. 

 They expect the other fellow to pay and the thing to go on while 

 they save their dollar. This spirit is one of the weaknesses of 

 co-operation of a widely dispersed body of co-operators. This 

 new move is to address itself to the individual factor, to create, 

 in brief, the elemental condition here that secures success in 

 European farmers' co-operative organizations. Co-operators 

 must for a time break sod and till the ground, save where com- 

 munity interests in a narrow belt where a given product is very 

 universally grown as in fruit, vegetable and potato growing sec- 

 tions that have to market at a distance, are concerned. 



