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together with an unusual degree of harmony 

 for the deliberate purpose of inducing Canadian 

 agriculturists to produce the things that will 

 bring the most profit. The results have been 

 most astonishing and most gratifying. 



The recent progress in the organization of 

 farmers has been less marked than has been 

 the development of rural communication and 

 agricultural education. Organization is a 

 prime requisite for farmers. They feel this 

 truth themselves. For the last forty years, 

 many attempts — some large, some small, some 

 successful, some great failures — have been made 

 to this end. The problem is an extremely 

 difficult one. Business co-operation among 

 farmers is especially difficult and, while co- 

 operation has developed quite largely — so much 

 so that the Department of Agriculture was able 

 to report, a year ago, a list of five thousand co- 

 operative societies of various kinds among 

 farmers — still it cannot be said that the farmers 

 are co-operating industrially in a relatively large 

 way. They have, however, a multitude of 

 associations and societies. They have also the 

 Grange, which is the most successful of all the 

 general organizations of farmers in the country. 

 Contrary to public belief, the Grange is not 



