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South have been abandoned as unprofitable to cultivate longer in either 

 of these crops. These planters in the South are casting about for some- 

 thing that will not only restore their lands but their purses as well. 



These abandoned lands of the South produce an excellent pasturage 

 grass that grows and fattens a good grade of beef, and while in the past 

 the tick fever retarded the crttle business in the South, each year lately 

 has seen the tick brought more under subjugation. The reports we have 

 from our breed of cattle that have been taken down into this land of ticks 

 is most gratifying to the breeders of our breed of cattle, as the natural 

 grasses on these abandoned lands of the south with the waste products 

 of their cotton gins make a prime grade of beef. 



While we are not getting the prices on paper for our cattle that some 

 of the other breeds appear to be getting for theirs, the price that we are 

 receiving for ours at the present time is profitable none the less to the 

 grower and the new men who are buying them are settling for them 

 in cash. 



There seems to be a demand for more cattle of our breed than we are 

 able to produce at this time, and the past two years has seen a wonder- 

 ful accession to our ranks of new men starting in the business so that 

 there is nothing in the situation, except possibly the depravity of the 

 packer, to deprive the grower of cattle out of the profits, that would 

 lead me to believe but what our breed of cattle at least is entering upon 

 one of the brightest eras in its history. Should the packer interfere with 

 our business, as he has in the past, let us hope that out of the situa- 

 tion some way will be devised by which these packers and their interests 

 will be brought under the control of the American people. 



I believe that the American people have passed by the era of cheap 

 meats or cheap cattle either, that in the end we will adjust our business 

 to free trade in meats and grains as well, and that we are going to have 

 one of the most profitable periods in our business that purebred cattle 

 breeders have experienced during the past ten or a dozen years, and that 

 it will come to us under the present tariff act, not by virtue of the act 

 alone, but in spite of it. 



BETTER CO-OPERATION BETWEEN FARMER AND MERCHANT. 



BY J. A. WILSON. 



(Read Before the Linn County Farmers' Institute.) 



We hear much today of co-operation. We have co-operative banks, 

 stores, grain elevators, lumber yards and various industries conducted on 

 the co-operation plan. 



There are those who profess to believe that co-operation could be made 

 a panacea for all our social and economic ills. We believe that it is pos- 

 sible to over-estimate the benefits to be derived by co-operation, as w611 

 as to fail to appreciate the need of some concerted action by those pur- 

 suing different occupations, whereby they can render assistance to each 

 other and to the general public. Co-operation can never become a reality 

 by two opposing forces, when the success of one, necessarily, means the 



