102 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Its cultivation demands intensive practices. The fruit grower 

 occupies a responsible position in the agricultural fraternity. 



I thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your very kind atten- 

 tion. It has been a great pleasure to me to have this oppor- 

 tunity of meeting you again. 



INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY— CO-OPERATION. 

 By Prof. Peter Hendricksox, Yarmouth. 



It is very, very long ago that the question : "Am I my 

 brother's keeper?" was contemptuously asked. Nineteen hun- 

 dred years ago the world received an answer, which it has ever 

 since obstinately struggled not to accept in a frank and cheerful 

 spirit. The stronger and more cunning has yielded to the 

 promptings of selfishness and greed and marched towards his 

 goal with his heel upon the neck of his weaker brother. 



But the germ of sympathy in the human breast has been 

 growing in every generation until it has acquired a force and 

 momentum which promise to bring in a new era and to realize 

 the "Brotherhood of ]\Ian," no longer in theory only but in 

 actual experience. 



I shall never forget the solemn earnestness with which our 

 college president, in his lectures on political economy, declared 

 his conviction that the only settlement of the struggle between 

 capital and labor, between the economically strong and the weak 

 in society would be found in co-operation. That declaration, 

 like a seed in fertile soil, took root in my mind and has grown 

 ever since until it has acquired the strength of certain knowl- 

 edge. 



And this it is of which I shall try to speak to you here today. 



It is now only about a dozen years since I witnessed the 

 springing into life of the first co-operative industry in a com- 

 munity in which I lived. 



In a very fertile region of Wisconsin, the dairy industry had 

 been making very rapid advance since the advent of the cream 

 separator. The money makers were not slow to see their 

 opportunity, and creameries with machine equipments began to 

 spring up all around. 



