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and selling, forgetting that this is only one of the many 

 important problems in the solution of which farm bureaus 

 can render assistance, and which are vital to the success- 

 ful organization and the development of agriculture. 

 True, the need in this field is very large, for the abuses 

 have been large. Sound judgment and business experi- 

 ence, however, indicate that commercial transactions re- 

 quire a business organization on a local unit and com- 

 modity basis adapted to this specific purpose and that this 

 organization must necessarily be so constructed that it is 

 not adapted to do other things. Moreover, it is usually 

 impossible as well as impracticable to combine commercial 

 and educational activities, the one prejudicing the success 

 of the other. 



The question is, therefore, shall we divert this great 

 educational and representative organization which has 

 been builded, into a single channel, making it over to meet 

 one of the important problems in the agricultural field, or 

 shall we use it educationally to encourage and to foster spe- 

 cific local units and commodity agencies adapted to the serv- 

 ice which can meet the problem? An educational policy 

 will leave the farm bureau organization to continue its edu- 

 cational activities, to complete the marketing organization 

 program, to help establish and to federate more local agen- 

 cies, to foster and to develop a more adequate and satisfy- 

 ing country life in short, to round out the program. By 

 following this policy the farm bureaus will have retained 

 their identity and will not have been swallowed up by a 

 single phase of the problem. 



Fortunately, on this point the American Farm Bureau 

 Federation, whose leadership will be extremely potent, has 

 already chosen wisely and in accordance with this policy. 

 If its leadership is followed, the future of farm bureaus in 

 respect to this problem looks bright. The American Fed- 



