NEW PRACTICE. 



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of much practical value to those who are engaged in it. The 

 co-operation here referred to is in no sense socialistic, neither 

 does it contemplate a multitudinous membership. Where the 

 purpose is that of securing better freight accommodations 

 or a juster freight rate the membership may comprise all the 

 farmers of a township, a county, or a state who are engaged in 



CHAPTER VIII., FIG. 80. A DISTRICT SCHOOL BUILDING WHICH HAS BEEN 

 ABANDONED FOR THE CENTRALIZED SCHOOL, CLINTON CO., O. 



raising the same line of produce for shipment. Where such 

 societies exist they exercise a powerful influence in obtaining 

 the conditions sought for; they spread information as to the 

 state of the market, and they mitigate the grasp of middlemen 

 upon the producers. The co-operation to which attention is 

 more particularly called as being new, however, is that which 



