253 CO-OPERATION 



IN OPERATION 



tions. Co-operation has won the right to be 

 accounted the most important social movement 

 of our times outside of politics. It is of course 

 only a half truth, but the world needs half truths 

 to make up its whole truth." 



There are tracts near all good markets where 

 communities could be established. The value of 

 co-operation and combination has been learned 

 partly through the trades unions and partly 

 through the success of big corporations. As soon 

 as men learn to look upon farming as a business 

 to which business principles should be applied, 

 co-operative farming will spread rapidly. 



The earth can be made to yield many times 

 more abundantly through the application of in- 

 tensive methods; the same methods applied to 

 effort will give still more abundant returns. This 

 is proved by all the experiments in co-operative 

 farming. 



But the people must have room near to one 

 another to make co-operation natural and easy. 



There will be a revolution in our farming plans 

 and in our farm life just as soon as the people 

 wake up to the fact that the land about our towns 



