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were in hand. In this way the capitalist is striking 

 hands with the laboring man to put him in shape for 

 a country home. 



This sort of cooperation, begun by corn trains, has 

 widened into a very strong fellowship between agri- 

 culture and commerce. It is eminently wise, for the 

 real policy of the industries is to work together. 

 The carrying trade cannot overtax the producer with- 

 out injuring itself. All peoples and all classes 

 thrive together or they suffer together, and it is for- 

 tunate that the leaders of our industrial system are 

 finding this out. Mr. B. F. Yoakum, Chairman of 

 the Frisco System, said in a recent address before the 

 Farmer's Education and Cooperative Union, " The 

 farmers and railroads have something to cooper- 

 ate with and something to cooperate for. The 

 heavy reductions in freight rates of the last few years 

 have been absorbed by middlemen and not shared by 

 either the producers or the consumers." 



Agricultural education which had been confined to 

 the colleges and their bulletins was now widened by 

 a plan of educational trains, carrying the best trained 

 workers across the country from town to town, giving 

 demonstrations of how to handle milk and farm 

 crops, how best to manage the soil, in what way 

 fertilizers were needed, and how to combat insect 

 pests while accepting bird alliance. The first of 

 these trains was, I think, in Illinois, but the seventh 

 or eighth crossed the Central Lines before the end 

 of 1910. 



