210 THE GREEN RISING 



Cooperative marketing also ran counter to well 

 established traditional policies of marketing and dis- 

 tributing farm products that affected directly or 

 indirectly great numbers of people. It should be 

 observed, however, that it has been surprising how 

 much sympathetic support and assistance this 

 movement has received from bankers and business 

 men, and how ineffective much of the opposition 

 has been in retarding the progress of the movement. 



Many conscientious people have opposed the 

 cooperative marketing movement, or have been 

 skeptical of its beneficial results. Some of its most 

 ardent supporters are somewhat to blame for some 

 of the adverse opinions and criticisms that have been 

 directed against the movement. Exaggerated claims 

 have been made and possible benefits have been 

 promised that were not valid. All fallacious argu- 

 ments that have been presented by enthusiastic 

 friends of this movement have been seized upon by 

 competent authorities and used for the purpose of 

 creating prejudice against the movement. For ex- 

 ample, in the preliminary propaganda much was 

 heard about the folly of "dumping" and the wisdom 

 of "orderly" marketing. 



Professor James E. Boyle has pointed out re- 

 peatedly that this argument has no validity when 

 applied to wheat. In an address before Section F of 

 the British Association at Toronto on August 13, 

 1924, he said: "It is true we move one-half our 

 wheat crop to market within ninety days of harvest. 



