THE NEW EARTH 



the delinquent tax list was only one-fifth as 

 large as in the year it was founded. The aver- 

 age deposits of the farmers in one town in the 

 county, the year of the first creamery, were 

 fifty -six thousand dollars; the average ten 

 years later, with the creameries in full running 

 order, was three hundred and twenty thousand 

 dollars ; and this does not include the deposits 

 of the creameries themselves, some sixty thou- 

 sand dollars additional. Farm lands increased 

 in the ten years from ten to thirty dollars per 

 acre to twenty-five to sixty dollars per acre. 



The illustration is worthy of close study. It 

 shows in concrete form what may actually be 

 accomplished in cooperation under normal 

 conditions in America. 



But it must be noted, in passing, that coop- 

 eration in the United States and cooperation 

 in Great Britain, for example, do not pro- 

 ceed upon parallel lines. In essence the spirit 

 is the same, but in practice the English system 

 is much broader. In England cooperation has 

 widened until it takes in practically every 

 agricultural, manufacturing and general trade 

 interest. It extends to the cities where great 

 establishments are founded, carrying on an 



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