XLII. 



CO-OPERATION IN FARMING. 



THE word of hope and cheer for Labor in our days 

 is COOPERATION that is, the combination by many 

 of their means and efforts to achieve results bene- 

 ficial to them all. It differs radically from Com- 

 munism, which proposes that each should receive 

 from the aggregate product of human labor enough 

 to satisfy his wants, or at least his needs, whether he 

 shall have contributed to that aggregate much, or 

 little, or nothing at all. Cooperation insists that each 

 shall receive from the joint product in proportion 

 to his contributions thereto, whether in capital, skill, 

 or labor. If one associate has ten children and an- 

 other none, Communism would apportion to each ac- 

 cording to the size of his family alone ; while Coop- 

 eration would give to each what he had earned, re- 

 gardless of the number dependent upon him. Thus 

 the two systems are radical antagonists, and only 

 the grossly ignorant or willfully blind will confound 

 them. 



A young farmer, whose total estate is less than 

 $500, not counting a priceless wife and child, resolves 



