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elirainatod cash labor, the sink hole in big fanning. We have 

 placed every person outside of the central office on tlie merit sys- 

 tem. We have made wholesale purchase possible. We have 

 sufficient production to enter the market as a merchant. We 

 have not adopted a plan for which men cannot be found. We 

 have made it possible to apply best-known methods of production. 

 We make possible general land improvement. We have placed 

 farm operations on a business basis and so have settled farm 

 credits or fann banking. We have placed farm tenantry upon a 

 profitable and honorable basis. In fact, we have brought scientific 

 management to the farai as presently occupied. We cannot lose 

 and we have every chance to win. 



Mr. Fullerton : I want to ask Mr. Cook one question. Does 

 he think that our descendants will stand for a thing that his an- 

 cestors and mine left Europe because of — tenantry ? Never, 

 as long as we are Americans, will tenantry come into this great 

 and glorious country. 



Mr. Cook : The trouble is, it is here now. Come out into the 

 country and see how many tenant farmers we have, real Ameri- 

 cans, working farms on shares ; and some of them, a great many 

 of them, will be the land owners of the next generation. Some 

 of the men who owns farms to-day, splendid types of American 

 farm citizenship, were tenants before. We have tenantry and 

 we are going to have it, and let us undertake to improve rather 

 than to destroy, as we cannot get rid of it. 



Mr. Tucker: The next order of business, which is not on the 

 program, is the reading of the report of the Conunittee on De- 

 velopment of Agricultural Resources, by Mr. Edward van Alstyne. 

 Director of Farmers' Institutes. 



Mr. van Alstyine : We have given some consideration to 

 these questions, which are pretty far reaching, and we regret 

 that lack of time and illness of our chaimian prevented our pre- 

 senting a report as full and perhaps as revolutionary as we had 

 in mind. We have thought it wiser to present a very brief report 

 on two or three fundamental questions. 



