1244 New Yokk State Agricultural Society 



contributed recently to the World's Work ^Magazine, after review- 

 ing the evils of our present system of industrial, commercial and 

 economic organizations says: 



" Society is looking itself over, in our day, from top to bottom; 

 is making fresh and critical analysis of its very elements ; is ques- 

 tioning its oldest practices as freely as its newest, scrutinizing 

 every arrangement and motive of its life ; and it stands ready to 

 attempt nothing less than a radical reconstruction, which only 

 frank and honest counsels and the forces of generous cooperation 

 can hold back from becoming a revolution. We arc in a temper 

 to reconstruct economic society, as we were once in a temper to 

 reconstruct political society, and political society may itself 

 undergo a radical modification in the process. I doubt if any 

 age was ever more conscious of its task or more unanimously 

 desirous of radical and extended changes in its economic and 

 political practices. 



" We stand in the presence of a revolution — not a bloody revo- 

 lution, America is not given to the spilling of blood — but a 

 silent revolution whereby America will insist upon recovering in 

 practice those ideals which she has always professed, upon secur- 

 ing a government devoted to the general interest and not to special 

 interests." 



Your committee submits the following propositions: 



1. Organization of farmers and other food producers is a prime 

 necessity. 



2. There should be in the state a central cooperative organiza- 

 tion to assist and advise in the organization and operation of 

 local cooperative societies. 



3. Local cooperative societies should be organized in every com- 

 munity selling produce or buying fertilizers, or other farm and 

 household supplies. Such societies would do much to secure 

 better and more uniform grading and packing, would be able to 

 ship and receive in carload lots, would l)e able through the cen- 

 tral organization to sell more direct to consumers or to find the 

 best markets, and to purchase more direct from the sources of 

 supplies. 



4. Cooperative wholesale and retail markets should be estab- 

 lished in the larger consuming and distributing centres of the 



