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The next year there were two men growing- them. The next 

 year more went into the business, until it got so that it 

 wasn't anything for a farmer to have ten acres of those 

 onions. The bigger the supply the lower went the price. So 

 you see the business was overdone. So it is, the farmer will 

 sway from one opportunity in farming to another. Some of 

 them will just get into the business and find that they have 

 gotten into the business too late. We oftentimes find that 

 in some particular locality like this the market is over- 

 crowded with this particular commodity, when, perhaps, there 

 are a half dozen other commodities in which there would be 

 good money, and of which there is no supply whatever. Now 

 what we need is more organization among the fruit growers 

 and vegetable growers, more societies and organizations 

 among market gardeners in certain localities, so that they 

 may know and inform themselves as to methods, and which 

 product is being raised by each farmer. In that way they 

 will be able to understand what the market needs and supply 

 it. Why is it that we have so many manufactures in which 

 each knows how much of this commodity is going to be 

 needed? There is a demand for this. There is so much of 

 this put into the market, and so the old law of supply and 

 demand works, but where there is no unity of action, we 

 cannot always depend upon the law of supply and demand. 

 Now I do not expect that any man who has a farm pur- 

 chased will, perhaps, sell his farm because of anything I say 

 this afternoon, but when I go out to farmers' meetings, 

 friends, I like to talk as if I was talking to my boys in my 

 classes, because I know there are some men who are after 

 the primary ideas that they want to use. If a man is going 

 into the vegetable or fruit business, it is not at all likely that 

 he would select a farm with all of one kind of soil. If a 

 man is a farmer and contemplates going into the fruit busi- 

 ness, it is then up to him to study the nature of the soils 

 that he has on the farm, and the requirements of the crops, 

 and the proper places for putting these on the farm. Other- 



