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happiness. Organization is the beginning of progress. It is that 

 agency that has been most powerful in making this country what it 

 is today. It is much easier for the Department of Agriculture to co- 

 operate with an organization than with an individual. Organiza- 

 tion thus becomes a necessity, and the farmer who refuses to associ- 

 ate with his fellows not only stands in the way of his own success, 

 but becomes a stumbling block for other. 



Co-operation is defined by Holyoke, as "The equitable division of 

 jjrofits with the worker, capitalist and consumer concerned in the 

 undertaking." Co-operation means literally a working together, and 

 in its widest sense would include nearly every act of man in buying, 

 selling or producing to gain a livelihood. The farmer co-operates 

 with the miller when he raises wheat, and the miller with the baker, 

 when he makes the wheat into flour. 



Government enterprise is often called ''paternalism" to discredit 

 it, but it is nothing of the kind. It is true co-operation. We, the 

 people, manage certain things ourselves, for our own benefit. The 

 co-operation is coerceive because the co-operation of all is required; 

 hence it must be under the control and management of the govern- 

 ment. 



That co-operation is destined to become an important factor and 

 a recognized necessity in the agricultural, industrial and economic 

 world, is the thought and belief of some of our most informed read- 

 ers and thinkers. But the principal reason to suppose that co- 

 operation most ultimately succeed is that it alone brings about such 

 a union of labor and capital as to prevent perpetual industrial war- 

 fare, and that cannot forever be tolerated. It may be further said 

 that it alone is compatible with the ultimate complete triumph of 

 Christianity. Co-operation means Brotherhood, a working for and 

 with one another, not against one another. 



The fundamental object of co-operation is to change the present 

 social and commercial system. It does not contemplate a time when 

 everyone shall be enrolled in a productive association, but it does 

 look forward to a future in which the dominant relation in industrial 

 life shall not be that of master and servant, but that of fellow- 

 worker. While co-operation seeks to make the material things in 

 life, production, buying and selling, wholesome and honest, it does 

 not stop there. Its object is to work out in practice the true rela- 

 tions between man and man, which can only be done by frank ac- 

 knowledgement of the ground upon which human society is based; 

 and that is, that we must be fellow-workers and not rivals. Breth- 

 ern of one family, to whom, indeed, the great inheritance of this earth 

 has been given, but only on condition that it shall be used and en- 

 joyed in the spirit and according to the will of Him who created it. 



My work includes the organization of Clubs, Unions and Granges, 

 and in giving such assistance as I may be able, in co-operative pro- 

 duction, buying and selling. I shall be pleased to give personal 

 supervision whenever possible, and such other information as will 

 be of assistance to the farmer. 



4. MRS. FOULKE: My work brings me in contact with the wo- 

 men, and it is a very much more diificult thing than some of you 

 imagine. It is not easy for one woman to start out and tell another 



