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all his neighbors have none, or that assumes that crop 

 failure somewhere must be necessary to good prices at 

 some other place. 



The ideal conditon is that of having good crops every 

 year and in all places. You can gain no permanent and 

 enduring advantage by the misfortune of your neighbors. 



What is it that demoralizes prices and brings distress 

 to farming and other industries? Not over-production, 

 but lack of production. The poor crops your neighbor 

 has will cause you to suffer in the end. 



The fact of the matter is that we shall never know a 

 time when production will outrun demand and the markets 

 of the world will be glutted. This might happen with one 

 or two things, but not with things in general. More and 

 more it is going to tax the ingenuity of man to provide for 

 his own necessities and desires. The area of land available 

 for agricultural purposes is limited and it will be nearly 

 all made use of in some way in the very near future. The 

 problem must ever be that of how to so increase production 

 that there will be competence for all, then how to distribute 

 this throughout the world. 



But under present conditions, with commercial war a 

 perpetual thing, encouraged and guarded and supplied with 

 weapons by our governments, there is a scramble for mark- 

 ets. We of America set out to corral a desirable market 

 for a certain line of goods, especially farm products, and 

 have it well in hand when there comes a season when we 

 cannot supply the demand, as was the case in the early 

 '90's, and immediately others step in and take possession 

 of the field. Then when we are ready to again furnish our 

 To iiner customers with what they want we find that they 

 IK, re made arrangements elsewhere that are satisfactory 

 in them. Right there the evil effect of poor markets is 



