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He will sell in small lois and buy in small lots, and he will suffer 

 more than anybody else from the middleman. 



Now, another trouble which is a serious one and which affects the 

 farming class as well as the consumer is the wide distance between 

 the man who produces the food and he who finally consumes it. There 

 certainly is too large a stretch between the man who produces the food 

 and the consumer. There is only one possibility for the small farmer, 

 and that is in correcting this distance by co-operation. AYe must get 

 together. It will be forced upon us in self-defense in the near future, 

 and unless we can co-operate we are almost certain to be at the mercy 

 of a large number of dealers, and particularly does this apply to the 

 small farm. 



Now, my purpose in calling this to your attention was not to 

 discourage the small farmer, nor certainly the man who wants to own 

 a little land, but my purpose is to emphasize the fact that the opportun- 

 ity for large success in agriculture is in co-operation and organization, 

 and that the man who will devote the same care and attention and ap- 

 ply to agriculture the same economic principles that have been suc- 

 cessful in railroad building, and that have been successful in making 

 shoes, will also be successful in agriculture, and this ought, it seems to 

 me, to be an encouragement particularly to young men who are want- 

 ing to engage in agriculture at the present time but who hesitate to do 

 so because of the high price of land, and because of the constant insis- 

 tence which many persons place on the fact that all future farmers 

 must be small farmers. The American farmer has never been an ig- 

 norant peasant and it is not essential either to society or to successful 

 agriculture that he should become so. 



AGRICULTURE IN THE SCHOOLS. 



(Dr. A. A. Brigham, Brookings, South Dakota.) 



The two most important products of Missouri and of the United 

 States are Chickens and Children. Both classes of creatures, judging 

 from the past three days in Columbia, are coming into their own in 

 Missouri. I will not say much this evening about chickens, but I do 

 wish to make a plea for the children. 



"When I came into this hall and saw on the wall the great word 

 "FARMERS," and beneath it the word "MISSOURI," I wondered 

 a little at first. It seemed as though it was not complete, as though 

 there ought to be an admonition added, such as, "BE PROGRES- 

 SIVE," or the Latin motto "Non f actus sed faciens," which means 



