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The neighborhood warehouse for any non-perishable 

 goods such as cereals, seems to me to be one avenue that 

 is open; but unfortunately such a warehouse would 

 only contain those things in the sale of which the farmer 

 suffers least. How shall the farmer control the mar- 

 ket for his live stock used for food purposes ? That is 

 the most difficult problem. The products of the farm 

 must go to the consumer. One possible way, if it could 

 be adopted, would be to have the farmers of a county 

 establish a market in the city where they could sell 

 directly to the consumer. I know the dangers of such 

 an undertaking, the difficulties of securing the proper 

 men, the dangers of financial stress and loss, the lack 

 of business sagacity which the representative of the 

 farmer might display, the opportunities for peculation 

 and theft, and in fact a whole array of difficulties which 

 can be easily stated and which are without doubt threat- 

 ening; but at least in such an organization there could 

 be a cold storage warehouse, and the farmer would not 

 be so completely under the thumb of the trust and the 

 manipulator. 



